Pet Divorce

A divorce can actually make your life miserable.  For all you know, you might have restrictions on not only meeting your kids, if there are any, but also your pets.  Recently a court ruled that dogs should not be treated like children with allocated visiting rights when it comes to divorce cases.  The whole episode started with a resident of Delhi whose wife initially allowed him to see his pet --Yako, a golden retriever.  However, when they separated, she had problems with him seeing the dog every weekend.  The man then approached a lower court with an appeal to grant him permission for the same.  The court ruled in his favour and set up some specific visiting hours for the meeting.  But the provincial court of Delhi then overturned that decision, saying it set a precedent for pets to be treated like children in divorce cases.  “This sort of litigation is rare, given that commonsense and reason dictates that people should not take such cases to court,” says a judge.  That’s not completely illogical but the poor man is so attached to his dog that he couldn’t help but take a legal permission to see his beloved pet ‘at least once in a week.’