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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

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC

Estate Planning for Your Pets

When preparing your estate plan there are a number of things to consider including how to provide for your pets who are an important part of your life and ensuring that they are taken care of after your passing. There are a...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

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

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Providing for Your Pet with a Trust

Beezer the cat can be a member of the family, but what happens to Beezer or [insert your pet's name] after you are gone? How can you ensure your pet will be cared for? One option is to create a pet trust. While you can give...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Walk on the Wild Side – Pet Trusts

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Anyone who has a pet knows that they are more than just companions, they are members of your family. Often, when people make decisions about their estate plans, they want to take these furry members of their family into...more

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