10 Separating pets from property.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

To many Alaskans, pets were always more like people than property. Now, when it comes to divorce, the law agrees. A bipartisan amendment to the divorce statutes, which took effect in January, makes the state the first to require courts to take "into consideration the well-being of the animal" and to give judges power to assign joint custody of pets, the Washington Post reports. The development is significant, experts say, because as...