Breeding Partners--what happens when you split?

[wallride]

Where is your stance on what happens to the chins, and how do you decide on who gets what?

My significant other and I split, and he is getting the pet chins.. i am getting the breeders.

Just curious on everyone else's opinions.

[Midwest Exotics]

Both Chris & I own chinchillas, he would get his, i would get mine. As for the other animals, they would be mine.. but i know he would put up a fight for the Neo & Elysium. Hahah (he wouldnt get them though!) =]

[dondeb562]

This is something I would never need to worry about. Before my husband met me he did not own animals. He is not a animal person and does not know how to care for them (except for the dogs and cats) The chinnies though, completly clueless.
I guess what you went into the relationsship would be yours, but the things you got while together would need to be split. You would have to sit down and make some sort of agreements.....

[Riven]

I would take into consideration who paid for what, and who's idea it was to get them.

If one of you alway cleaned cages, and feed, bought food etc. Then I think that person should get them as they obviously are the ones who took care of them. If it was totally joint... well there comes in a problem.

[tikitorch]

Even though my fiance paid for pretty much all my chins- he wouldn't take any of them, unless he was doing it to spite me but I am pretty sure he isn't that type of person (I guess it would depend on the situation and time frame since people can always change I imagine)

I could see maybe in the long future if we had a divorce having to pay for half of them xD

p.s. Editted to add: Does he even like chinchillas all that much? Or is he just trying to take something you love away from you?

[kryssy]

I would take all the critters. Just because I know my hubby and all though he loves the critters he doesn't have the time for them the way the kids and I do. He would probably want to take his pair. my gift to him one year for valentine's day. But in the long run, they would all stay with me.

[Terbear24]

All my animals would go with me. Marc would probably take the fish tank and honey and jazz (dogs) but thats it!

[Chin89]

I am the animal lover and I've brought all of the critters into our home. They would be mine, my husband wouldn't fight me on this...

[Stark Chinchillas]

My exhusband never had anything to do with the chins, never liked them, didn't do chores, etc. But when it came down to divorce, and since MO is an equitable (sp?) distribution state, he viewed them as an asset, and their worth was to be split. He went crazy then speculating how much they were really worth and trying to use it to his advantage. The good thing was, he never knew how much I'd really spent on everything. But it also didn't matter that I had paid for them out of my paycheck, because in the marriage, all money is both of yours. That's why I sold down, used the money to pay only my debts from the advice of my lawyer, and I had to turn in a list of every chin and cages, etc and what their worth was. I divided the worth of the cages by half for every year they were old, same with carriers. I didn't include expendible stuff like feed, dust, because that's used up. I then made a list of standards and mutations, how many I had and priced them at wholesale prices for their worth, based on talking to ranchers to find out the amount they wholesale standards and mutations out for. I think the total came out to 1800.00, LOL, which was by far not how much I spent, but there's nothing he could do because there aren't records on each transaction I'd made buying animals. It worked out, but there for awhile he was intent on sticking it to me some way through my animals. He even came over once with post-its and went around counting chins and making notes! I just stood there and said "Most of these are sold and I'm not keeping them so you standing here and counting them up isn't going to help you". Oh well, it worked out in the end. He could've been a real butt and made me split the money I had sold them for, but I never told him what I got, and my lawyer just advised me to pay off debt that's only in my name and if asked in court he would state that I also had to use the money to live since my husband had moved out and was no longer paying for any of the bills.

[Megan.]

Christina- Thats a shame that you had to split the chins with him, when you actually paid for them.



I don't have a "breeding partner". These are my animals, and as such, would stay with me. I'm not married, so wouldn't have to worry about having to "split my animals".

I've wondered this though too when two breeders go into business as partners. What happens if they decide to no longer work together, and if their friendship is lost? How do you choose who gets what? etc.