However, it is becoming increasingly common for pet custody to be part of the subject of discussion in a marital or breakup process. As always, the preferred formula is the agreement between the "parents", but in the absence of this, there are already precedents in which the judge has ended up ruling on how to resolve the conflict. It is thus necessary to agree on shared or exclusive custody with visits and also distribute the burdens that the animal generates and distribution of care, taking into account the interest of the animal itself and family members (especially the emotional ties with minor children). All of us who have pets know that they are actually one more member of the family.

If until recently it seemed a completely foreign issue to marriage processes, the growing social sensitivity on the subject has reached the Congress of Deputies where a bill to reform the Civil Code is being processed that will regulate the custody of pets in case of separation, annulment or divorce.

In case of a couple crisis, we must also count on the "furry ones".

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The divorce proceedings

Several studies also predict an exceptional increase in the number of divorces after the state of alarm, in most cases to exacerbate pre-existing marital crises.

We explain to you what the divorce process is, and what issues are raised in it.