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Ensuring Your Pet's Future: The Comprehensive Guide To Pet Trusts

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As pet owners, we form deep bonds with our furry, feathered, or scaly companions, considering them part of our families. But what happens to these beloved pets if we become unable to care for them due to illness, incapacity,...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Ensuring a Furry Future: Estate Planning for the Pets We Love

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Pets are not just animals, they are cherished members of our families, providing unconditional love and companionship. That is why, as responsible pet owners, it is our duty to ensure that our beloved furry friends are cared...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Leaving Money for Fido: Is Your Pet Trust Still Valid?

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Fortunately, your worry was solved by the Massachusetts Pet Trust Law, M.G.L.A. 203E § 408, which allows the creation of a trust during the settlor/owner’s lifetime for the continuing care of a pet or other animal should the...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Estate Planning for Your Furry Friends – Pet Trusts Explained

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For many pet owners, their furry friends are not just their most valued possessions – they are family members. Pet owners want to do everything they can to care for their pets, but what happens if they outlive you? It can be...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Ideas for Planning and Caring for Your Pets upon Incapacity or Death

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Many of us consider our pets an important part of our family and worry about their care and well-being when we are no longer able to make decisions about their care. As animal lovers ourselves, we have worked with many...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Wendy and Jen Wreck the Movies: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), or “It Ain’t Over til All the Whos in Whoville Sing”

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The Grinch lives alone in a mountaintop cave with his dog, Max, and no medical attention for his undersized heart and oversized unpleasantness. The Grinch observes the noisy holiday festivities of Whoville from afar. The...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Do I Need to Nominate a Guardian for My Child or Pet?

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In the unfortunate situation where you are not available to care for your child or pet, it is prudent to plan ahead by nominating a guardian for your child and/or pet. Advance planning avoids potential court fights over...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Pandemic Pets and Pet Companionship: Seven Benefits/Considerations for Care Coordination and Estate Planning

When my kids started to feel isolated and bored spending so much time at home due to the pandemic, we volunteered to be foster parents for a sweet four-week old kitty, Marigold. She was a fuzzball so tiny that I could hold...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Protecting Pets During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are taking action to make sure that their affairs are in order – reviewing guardian nominations for their minor children, funding their revocable trusts and, in some cases, making...more

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