Pets and Custody
When two people break up who gets to keep the pet(s)? Can the court order joint custody and visitation of the dog or cat, as it would a child? Is a pet treated the same way as a child in the eyes of the law, or simply as property? Pets have increasingly become more a part of the family over the years. Because people now see their pets as a family member, there have been new issues raised in the courts that were not even contemplated in generations past. More and more people w
