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i see this a lot more and more now that people really care about their pets i mean I love my pets you love your pets it’s something that comes up a lot in divorce now and it didn’t used to about 10 years ago however pets are not treated like children even though we think they are our children right a
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divorce court is going to look at a pet and treat it like furniture or the pots and pans and what that means is they have to essentially value it the pet and then they’re going to give that pet to one parent or the other the court has no authority to do any sort of pet custody
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or time sharing schedule for a pet however what I have been seeing and what’s been trending a lot more in the past couple years is parties will reach an agreement regarding pet custody and what I really see often is they’ll rotate weeks like one week one person will have the pet next week the other
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person will have a pet and rotate back and forth that’s becoming a lot more trendy um I have heard rumblings of other states enacting laws that do have pet custody however the states where I practice North Carolina Florida they do not have any sort of pet custody laws so