Helping those who help animals. Home Submit a Post Our Friends Blog Sign Up About Us FAQs Contact Action items for you on June 16, 2023: ALDF: Illinois Becomes Second State to Require Courts to Consider Wellbeing of Companion Animals in Custody Disputes The new law, effective Jan. 1, 2018, amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act to empower courts to create joint responsibility agreements (similar to shared custody) in cases where a couple is fighting over custody of an animal.
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San Francisco supervisors have unanimously approved a ban on fur sales, making San Francisco the largest city in the country to have the prohibition. The ban goes into effect January 1, but retailers have until January 2020 to sell off existing inventory.