Family
Jan. 9, 2019
Is the California Family Code going to the dogs?
For family law lawyers, love can indeed be a battlefield; a battlefield filled with real estate, children, jewelry, IRAs, and, as of Jan. 1, 2019, pets
Marlo Van Oorschot
Van Oorschot Law Group, PCPhone: (310) 820-3414
Email: mvo@mvolaw.com
Marlo is an AV rated lawyer who has been practicing family law exclusively since 1994.
Cara L. Boroda
Van Oorschot Law Group, PCPhone: (310) 820-3414
Email: clb@mvolaw.com
Cara has been practicing family law exclusively since 2010.
For family law lawyers, love can indeed be a battlefield; a battlefield filled with real estate, children, jewelry, IRAs, and, as of Jan. 1, 2019, pets. While California recognizes animals kept as pets to be a form of property, and thus characterized as either community or separate property, and divided as such during the divorce, the recently enacted Family Code Section 2605 statute broadens the "pet as property" concept to make orders for ownership taking into accou...
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