Lawyers Manual - Unified Court System

304 Betty Levinson
Notes
1. Family Violence in Child Custody Statutes: An Analysis of State Codes and
Legal Practice, 29 Fam LQ 212, 216 (1995).
2. Throughout this article, victims of domestic violence are identified as
women and the perpetrators as men. This reflects the scenario of the vast
majority of cases.
3. Clare Dalton, Domestic Violence, Domestic Torts and Divorce: Constraints
and Possibilities, 31 New Eng L Rev 2 (1997).
4. See Elizabeth Kelly, “How Women Define Their Experiences of Violence,”
in Feminist Perspective on Wife Abuse, Kersti Yllo and Michele Bograd, eds
(1990).
5. Two very useful texts in understanding domestic violence are Judith L.
Herman, Trauma and Recovery (1992) and Ann Jones, Next Time She’ll Be
Dead: Battering and How to Stop It (1994).
6. A full panoply of possible tort claims is contained in All in the Family —
Tort Litigation Comes of Age, 28 Fam LQ 3 (1994).
7. General Obligations Law § 3-313.
8. Weicker v Weicker, 22 NY2d 8 (1967); see also Baron v Jeffer, 98 AD2d
810 (2d Dept 1983); But see Weisman v Weisman, 108 AD2d 853 (2d Dept
1985) decided without citation to Weicker.
9. Murphy v Murphy, 109 AD2d 965 (3d Dept 1985).
10. Artache v Goldin, 133 AD2d 596 (2d Dept 1987); see also Jose F. v Pat M.,
154 Misc 2d 883 (Sup Ct Suffolk Co 1992) and Sanders v Rosen, 159 Misc
2d 563 (Sup Ct NY Co 1993).
11. Maharam v Maharam, 123 AD2d 165 (1st Dept 1986). Remember that the
statute of limitations in such cases runs from the time the plaintiff knew or
should have known when the disease was contracted.
12. Corrigan v Corrigan, NYLJ, Oct. 22, 1998, at 25 (Sup Ct Westchester Co
1998).
13. Brzonkala v Morrison, 529 US 598 (2000).
14. 8 NYCRR § 903(a).
15. Cadiz-Jones v Zambetti, NYLJ, Oct. 29, 2002, at 21 (Sup Ct NY Co 2002).