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David Siegel: Hello. Welcome to Legal Action. My name is David Siegel, alongside Chicago divorce attorney Jesse Barrientes, my co-host, and today we’re going to be talking about Divorce and Family Law. Jesse, welcome to the show.

Jesse Barrientes: Thanks, Dave.

David Siegel: Jesse, we have a special guest, a canine, and in typical divorce cases sometimes a canine is something that couples fight about.

Jesse Barrientes: Absolutely. We could probably even start off with that.

David Siegel: It’s like a little child.

Jesse Barrientes: It’s like a child. But contrary to popular belief, you can’t take the deduction, even though federal prison is probably infinitely better to state prison. However, we do have issues when pets are involved.

David Siegel: It’s a piece of property, under the court’s eyes. It’s not a child.

Jesse Barrientes: They call it a chattel, which is property. Exactly right.

David Siegel: But there are sometimes extravagant custody and visitation arrangements for dogs.

Jesse Barrientes: I actually had a case not too long ago where the wife and the husband were living separately. The wife was in a place where she couldn’t have pets, and there were, I think, two or three, and so she wanted visitation, and we had visitation for the dogs. When it comes down the court’s eyes, again, they just view it as chattel, as property and all that, but we had that until she was in a place where she could have pets, and then they were transferred. But boy, that sometimes just looking for trouble. Sometimes it gives another spouse an opportunity just to be physically present with the other person.

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