{"id":281,"date":"2010-07-19T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connecticutelderlawblog.wordpress.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:21:49","slug":"pet-trusts-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/pet-trusts-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Trusts in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CT law now allows a person to create a testamentary or lifetime trust for the benefit of pets.\u00a0 The Trust must terminate when the last surviving animal dies.\u00a0\u00a0A Trustee is appointed to manage the property for the benefit of the animal and\u00a0a Trust Protector is appointed to act on the animal&#8217;s behalf.\u00a0 The Trustee must account on an annual basis to the Trust Protector and the Trust Protector can petition the Court to force the trustee to honor the terms of the Trust or to replace or remove\u00a0the Trustee.\u00a0 There are also provisions to reduce amounts held in trust if they are excessively funded.\u00a0 Effective October 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CT law now allows a person to create a testamentary or lifetime trust for the benefit of pets.\u00a0 The Trust must terminate when the last surviving animal dies.\u00a0\u00a0A Trustee is appointed to manage the property for the benefit of the animal and\u00a0a Trust Protector is appointed to act on the animal&#8217;s behalf.\u00a0 The Trustee must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[105,91,140],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning-2","tag-estate-planning","tag-legislative-update","tag-pet-trusts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}