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Trusts & Estates

Aug. 9, 2012

Trust your dog: estate planning for family pets

California Probate Code Section 15212 now gives us the tools to protect our beloved dogs, when we are no longer present to do it ourselves. By Christopher D. Carico of Carico Johnson Toomey LLP


By Christopher D. Carico


To maintain our passion for our profession, we each need to figure out our own way of stepping back, keeping it real, living in the present, slowing it all down and taking a deep breath. For me, the reality check is my wife, kids and "Moolah." Not the kind of moolah you can spend, but a 110-pound, 4-year old female bullmastiff we adopted. The rescue (Noah's Bark) that spent a small fortune saving her gave Moolah her name. It...

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