Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Horses when you die

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> I'm wondering about what other people do for your horses when you die.
> I  mean, do you put them in your will? Or just tell your spouse or
> executor  what to do with them?

With approximately 60 horses here, you'd better believe I worry about what
could happen if both my husband and I should be in a fatal accident.  I
try to keep a current horse inventory on my computer, and I have a close
friend who is also involved in preservation breeding of the same
bloodlines that we are who has agreed to help sort things out should
anything happen to us.  My executor is non-horsey, but he knows how to
access the inventory list and get hold of the aforementioned friend.  Some
of our horses here are on lease, so it would be a matter of arranging
transportation back to their respective owners.  Others should be placed
in appropriate preservation breeding programs, while still others would be
sold as riding horses.  The friend who has agreed to step in should the
dire need arise is also sufficiently capable to ID any of the horses he
doesn't personally know based on their papers, and because we are in
constant contact, he has a pretty good idea of what goes on here on an
almost daily basis.
I think it behooves all horse people to have a contingency plan in their
wills for what is to happen to their horses in the event of their own
demise.
Heidi



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