I am planning to leave my wife. I am setting up alternate living arrangements before breaking the news to her, but suffice to say I'm just not happy in the marriage anymore for a variety of reasons.
Shouldn't be too complicated a divorce. We have separate bank accounts and not much money in either of them anyway. Here's the deal about property – we live in a home owned by her grandmother, which she will obviously be staying in, so that settles that. In terms of property, I am willing to leave her with just about everything in the home in terms of furniture (tables/chairs/bed/sofa). The ONLY thing I really want is the TV (which I purchased myself) and a recliner (which she hates anyway).
And THEN.. there's the dog, who is really the only thing that has stopped me from not leaving sooner. Here's the deal with the dog, which was brought into the home while we were married:
- Registered at the vet under HER name, although I have taken him for almost all his appointments, so pretty much every vet invoice is under MY name.
- Microchip registered in my name, but at our current address.
- Dog tag has my cell phone number on it.
- I do roughly 90% of the caring for him. Feeding/cleaning/walking. He is MUCH more attached to me, a fact that her and I often joke about.
We both love the dog dearly, and while I'm willing to leave her with everything in the home, I don't know if that would even be enough of a negotiating tactic to keep the dog (meaning, "hey, you take everything in the house, and let me keep the dog"). I realize that pets are property under California law, but is anything stopping me from taking him with me when I move out, and then letting it be figured out by the court at a later date?
Shouldn't be too complicated a divorce. We have separate bank accounts and not much money in either of them anyway. Here's the deal about property – we live in a home owned by her grandmother, which she will obviously be staying in, so that settles that. In terms of property, I am willing to leave her with just about everything in the home in terms of furniture (tables/chairs/bed/sofa). The ONLY thing I really want is the TV (which I purchased myself) and a recliner (which she hates anyway).
And THEN.. there's the dog, who is really the only thing that has stopped me from not leaving sooner. Here's the deal with the dog, which was brought into the home while we were married:
- Registered at the vet under HER name, although I have taken him for almost all his appointments, so pretty much every vet invoice is under MY name.
- Microchip registered in my name, but at our current address.
- Dog tag has my cell phone number on it.
- I do roughly 90% of the caring for him. Feeding/cleaning/walking. He is MUCH more attached to me, a fact that her and I often joke about.
We both love the dog dearly, and while I'm willing to leave her with everything in the home, I don't know if that would even be enough of a negotiating tactic to keep the dog (meaning, "hey, you take everything in the house, and let me keep the dog"). I realize that pets are property under California law, but is anything stopping me from taking him with me when I move out, and then letting it be figured out by the court at a later date?
