You have no kids and no assets to speak of. Think your divorce will be easy? It probably will be -- unless you both own a pet neither of you is willing to share. Check out this interesting news item from The New York Post.
Next time, put the pup in the pre-nup.
A pair of divorcing women are about to fight it out in court over a miniature dachshund named Joey in what will be New York’s first matrimonial pet-custody case.
“People who love their dogs almost always love them forever,” Manhattan Justice Matthew Cooper opines in his ruling granting the women oral arguments. “But with divorce rates at record highs, the same cannot always be said for those who marry.”