divorce and pets.
Laura Vogel We may not think of it much, but what happens to pets when their owners divorce? Laura Vogel tells this tale of a pet custody battle. In 2000, my boyfriend of seven years and I made three monumental, life-altering decisions: We got married, bought a house, and adopted a five-month-old stray puppy named Daisy. Guess which of the three -- husband, house, hound -- are still mine? With couples delaying child-bearing, and divorce rates holding steady in the U.S., pet custody battles have become the "new children" in divorce courts. Lawyer Peter Mogren of Mogren, Glessner and Roti in Seattle, has dealt with many cases in which pets were subject to custody battles. For those ...