Pet Trusts

Advance Planning for the Future Care of Your Pets

On January 1, 2009, California Probate Code 15212 established legally enforceable pet trusts.

Now a California pet owner can create a legally enforceable trust to provide for the care of his or her domestic or pet animals, if and when the owner becomes incapacitated or dies. Under this law, animal care trusts, or "pet trusts," are presumed to be valid as long as certain legal requirements are met. Generally, these requirements ensure that all of the money left in trust for pets is actually used for the benefit of those pets.

Advantages of a Pet Trust

Leave specific instructions for care and maintenance

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Courts may enforce and protect the rights of your pet

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Courts may enforce and protect the rights of your pet

Advance Planning for the Future Care of Your Pets

On January 1, 2009, California Probate Code 15212 established legally enforceable pet trusts.

Advantages of a Pet Trust

Leave specific instructions for care and maintenance

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Courts may enforce and protect the rights of your pet

Pet trusts offer maximum flexibility in planning and caring

Courts may enforce and protect the rights of your pet

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