Time for one of my legal questions as I don't seem to have any normal friends Scenario is as follows:
A friend called Lyndsey as a daughter, Lyndsey's dad buys his granddaughter a dog for her birthday 5 months ago. A few weeks after, Lyndsey is quite ill and the GP suggests it's a reaction to the dog so she is told she's best to give the dog up, her daughter's devastated obviously. The dog's advertised for adoption but Lyndsey's dad takes the dog in the end. It then turns out that it wasn't an allergy that Lynsey had, was a coincidental infection which had the hallmarks of allergies. Problem now is, Lynd's dad's wife has started to like the dog and won't give it up, the dad is siding with his wife. Lyndsey has her daughter in tears still wanting the dog back (she's 3) but her dad is refusing.
Seems a messy situation to me, her dad paid for the dog originally but Lyndsey has paid a lot of the vet bills etc since. She's asking where she stands legally with this so I thought i'd ask on here as there's usually a lot of clued up people!