Who gets the pets in a divorce?

Pets, are very, are a very important issue in the divorce.

Unfortunately, Florida sees the pets as property.

And as a pet owner myself, it hurts to hear that. But that’s the law.

The way the law sees the pets, for example, we cannot ask for time sharing or to have a parenting plan where the spouses split the time with the pet.

They are property, right?

So what happens is now more and more, the courts are, because of the importance of the pets in the life of someone, the courts are able to hear arguments about, if you should keep this pet.

Are there any receipts of purchase?

Was the pet a gift from someone to one of the spouses?

Is it a service animal that one of the spouses would have more benefit?

Who is the spouse that can take care of the pet if someone is working all day and the other one is not?

Well, that would make sense for one of the spouses to have it.

And that is basically, how the issue of who keeps the pet, is going to be resolved.

Ideally spouses should be able to, to agree on this, but if they cannot, you know, then there are some
arguments that we can make.