Connecticut Pet Trust Statute & Other Pet Trust Tips

Connecticut’s new pet trust statute, effective October 1, 2009, provides a useful estate planning tool, allowing pet owners to establish a trust for the duration of the named animal’s life and designate a trust protector to see that the pet is properly cared for. 

There are other things, however, that a pet owner needs to consider, including possible corresponding adjustments in the pet owner’s will to account for the trust property (e.g. the pet) and directions for euthanasia necessitating scenarios and final disposition.

See Gina M. Barry, Pet Trusts Coming to Connecticut, Aug. 26, 2009.

For the text of Connecticut’s statute, see my prior post.

Special thanks to Robert C. Young (Stewart, Plant & Blumenthal, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland) for bringing this to my attention.