Pets and your estate plan
Joan Rivers left her $150M fortune to her daughter and among others…..to her dogs. We are not too far off from Hollywood. In Ontario, a pet is property and, therefore, forms part of the estate of the deceased. If there is no Will, the pet devolves, like other property, to the deceased’s next of kin in accordance with the provincial laws of intestacy. If there is a Will, there may be provisions for the pet in the Will (what happens to the pet upon death). Here is the major dis