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| Hannah Wise with her dog |
A 10-year-old girl is upset that her mother’s former boyfriend kept her dog and won't return it.
A lawsuit was filed on behalf of the child of Detroit, Michigan, in an attempt to get her Poodle back from her mother's former boyfriend.
Hannah Wise of Farmington Hills, who is represented by attorney Robert Zawideh, said in a lawsuit that her mother’s former boyfriend, Mitchell Rechter, did not return her dog, named Mystery, after the girl and her mother moved out from his home.
Hannah's claim is part of a lawsuit filed by her mother, Adrienne Lenhoff.
In the lawsuit, Lenhoff said she was in a relationship with Rechter for five years, and he led her to believe that he would marry her and provide her with a stable home for Hannah.
However, earlier this year, Lenhoff learned that Rechter was seeing someone else, leading her to moved out of his apartment located in West Bloomfield.
Rechter’s attorney, Jonathan Jones, said in court documents that Hannah gave him the dog.
"The plaintiff gave the dog to the defendant to take care of it. She took another dog with her the day she left," Rechter wrote in court documents.
Besides the dog, Lenhoff said that Rechter kept thousands of dollars worth of items including rings, golf equipment, boots and her ketubah, which is a Jewish wedding license from her first marriage that she said is worth $20,000.
She also wrote in court document that Rechter borrowed $20,000 from her in order to go on trips to places including Boston, Massachusetts, and Mexico.