Marcus & Theo Alvarez-Finch — two beloved dogs, an estate promised whole to charity, and the question no plan had ever answered: who cares for the one left behind?
Estate planning defaults to bloodline, and theirs doesn’t. What was actually on their minds had never fit an intake form: who takes care of the survivor when one of them is gone, who takes care of Biscuit and Juno, how everything ends up at the causes they chose — and, hardest of all for two people who trust almost no one, who holds the pen if neither of them can. The folio answers all four, in writing.
We noticed the annual audit found the pet trust’s named caregiver had relocated abroad.
The answer The backup stepped up exactly as written; the instruction letter refreshed and re-signed within the month.
No heirs does not mean no one to protect. The record names them all — the survivor, the dogs, the causes, the pen.