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23/09/2008
Pets to feature more prominently in divorce cases? |
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Disputes over pets could soon become a common feature of divorce cases, if one legal separation is anything to go by.
A woman from Gloucestershire has been awarded a £50,000 maintenance package for her three horses following her divorce from her husband of 11 years.
She was also given a lump sum of £900,000 so that she can buy a piece of land large enough for the animals to graze on.
The money was given as part of a divorce package worth £1.5 million in total, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The woman's husband had argued that the needs of his estranged wife could be met with a house worth £600,000 and grazing land.
However, District Judge Michael Segal ruled otherwise, saying that the wife's love for the horses had been an integral part of the their life together, nothing that they had become a substitute for children.
Commenting on the case, family judge Mark Potter said: "During the marriage the horses played a major part in the wife’s life with the consent and encouragement of the husband."
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