Vermont § 1423 - Trust for care of animal
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 1423 — Trust for care of animal, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1423. Trust for care of animal
- (a) As used in this section: (1) “Animal trust” means a trust or an interest in a trust created to provide for the
care of one or more animals. (2) “Protector” means a person appointed in an animal trust to enforce the trust on behalf
of the animal or, if no such person is appointed in the trust, a person appointed
by the court for that purpose. (b) The decanting power may be exercised over an animal trust that has a protector to
the extent the trust could be decanted under this chapter if each animal that benefits
from the trust were an individual, if the protector consents in a signed record to
the exercise of the power. (c) A protector for an animal has the rights under this chapter of a qualified beneficiary. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if a first trust is an animal
trust, in an exercise of the decanting power, the second trust shall provide that
trust property may be applied only to its intended purpose for the period the first
trust benefitted the animal. (Added 2023, No. 177 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2024.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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