Informative article in the NY Daily News on January 8, 2011. The article suggests that rather than leaving a pet in their will that the pet owner should create a pet trust and name the trust as a beneficiary of the life insurance policy. Connecticut recently enacted a statute authorizing the creation of trusts for the care of domestic animals – C.G.S 45-489a.
Read the full text of the Daily News article here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/pets/2011/01/08/2011-01-08_orphaned_by_blizzard_owner_dies_in_storm_cats_left_with_no_home.html