Why Pets as Beneficiaries?
- They won’t be dismayed with the amount you leave them and won’t try to petition the courts for a bigger share.
- They won’t be upset if you leave your children, or other family members, more money than you’ve left them.
- They won’t have a “hissy fit” if you left your coins, collectibles or jewelry to other beneficiaries.
- They won’t claim that you’ve practiced “favoritism” by naming a certain person as Executor instead of another.
- They do not have “significant others” who can micro-manage, behind the scenes, to turn one family member against the other.
- They won’t be upset if in your Will you forgave various debts of certain children and not others.
- They won’t constantly badger the Executor with questions like:
“What’s taking so long for me to receive inheritance?”