Another story about a divorce that winds up centering on custody of the family pets. From the Chicago Tribune:
Lynn Goldstein Nichols still has nightmares about Beanie and Kacey, the two cats she lost to her ex-husband in a divorce four years ago. And to this day, she says, it hurts more to think about her lost pets than the 30 days she spent in jail for disobeying a judge's order to give them up.''If I could, I would spend all my time crusading to change the laws that say these living creatures that spend their life with you are nothing more than property,'' said Nichols, 54, of Louisville. ''If your pets are like your children and you get a divorce, they end up getting divided up like pots and pans. It's devastating.''
With so many marriages in America ending in divorce, couples aren't just fighting over the kids or who gets the china and the king-size bed anymore. A growing number are squaring off over who will end up with the family pet.