                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TRUST FOR CARE OF ANIMAL (§ 64.2-779.20)

A. As used in this section:
			&#8220;Animal trust&#8221; means a trust or an interest in a trust created to
provide for the care of one or more animals.
			&#8220;Protector&#8221; 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 that the trust could be decanted under this article 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 article of a qualified
beneficiary.

D. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, if a first trust is an
animal trust, in an exercise of the decanting power, the second trust must
provide that trust property may be applied only to its intended purpose for the
period the first trust benefited the animal.

HISTORY: 2017, c. 592.