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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
If you were in my state, I could help. I do on average an estate plan a week. Most for very elderly clients who have some of the same struggles. My unsolicited recommendation would be to pick a charity you are both passionate about. They are always an excellent fallback should you lack heirs.
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Hi, thanks for the thought!
We're fine. He'll probably leave it all to his sibling's kids and I'll split the baby, so to speak--half to those same kids (in their 50's, lol) and half to a no-kill shelter and rescue here, or actually, a quarter to a horse rescue and one to a cat rescue.
It's just...I worry (because, hey, I do) that if we're
both in a wreck, or the like,
nobody will find the cats in time to keep them from starving and they won't know where to take them, when they do. So...I had to think about that and to whom to give the Will and codicil, so that if something DOES happen, they know to go, look, fetch and carry them to their Guardians. (We are incredibly lucky, in one sense--the lady from whom we obtained the cats, one rescue, one bred by her--and the vet that cared fro them for years--married each other, lol. AND--this is bizarre and if it were in a book, you'd throw it across the room, saying "oh, that's crappy writing, to build in a coincidence like that!--but of
all the damned things, they bought a house a few homes away from us, literally, on the same main street. So, GREAT Cat Guardians and their little Pet trust is all set up. That part, all handled. It's just making sure that someone FINDS them that worries me a skoosh.
We do free feed--and that would keep them for...IDK, 1-2, maybe 3 days? And the water in their bowl, plus toilet water, another...3? But...I would hate to have them undergo that, if we can avoid it.
I wonder if there's a "cats at home" car thingy, or a "PetAlert" bracelet--when they pull your carcass out of the vehicle, someone sees that you have vulnerable pets that need care....
Hitch