Identify every cat
Photos, microchip details, health needs, medications, routines, relationships, and handling preferences.
Planning library
Lifetime planning is for every Guardian—and every age of cat.
A useful plan covers the first hours of an emergency, the people who can act, each cat’s daily reality, money, legal authority, and what happens when the first plan fails.
Start with what is practical
Six planning spokes around one current care record.
Name people in order
Your account holder is the present caregiver. Add willing backup people and confirm how to reach them.
Plan the first 72 hours
Home access, food, medication, transport, veterinarian, temporary care, and emergency contacts.
Match authority to the job
Review your will, trust, power of attorney, letter of intent, and ownership documents with qualified counsel.
Fund the real care
Estimate ordinary and medical costs, decide who controls funds, and document any restrictions.
Review every year
People move, cats age, medications change, and documents expire. Annual review keeps the plan usable.
Planning documents
Four documents can do four different jobs.
Names and legal effects vary by state. This sequence explains the planning role of each document; it is not a substitute for advice from your attorney.
Letter of Intent
Records practical care directions: routines, health needs, people to call, veterinary preferences, and the Guardian’s wishes. It guides care but does not itself transfer ownership or create legal authority.
Power of Attorney
May authorize a chosen person to act for the Guardian during life, including a period of incapacity, if state law and the signed instrument permit it. A power of attorney ends at death and does not create post-death authority.
Lifetime Care agreement
Defines what Feline Transitions has actually accepted, the applicable Path A or Path B scope, activation conditions, responsibilities, fees or funding, exclusions, and review requirements. Website use or payment alone does not replace a signed agreement.
Will or trust authority
Addresses ownership, fiduciary authority, funding, and instructions after death. Your attorney should coordinate these provisions with the care plan and any program agreement so the documents do not conflict.
Independent free resources
Use trusted planning tools alongside professional advice.
Estate and funding coordination
Guardians can track trusts, wills, beneficiary designations, direction letters, and restricted-gift records in the private instrument workspace.
Open the Guardian workspace →Pet planning
The ASPCA offers a pet alert card, emergency contact sheet, pet portfolio guidance, caregiver selection, funding questions, and a pet-trust primer.
Open ASPCA planning guide ↗Role-based support
Find guidance for the person doing the work.
The Support Center connects Guardians, caregivers, veterinarians, attorneys, fiduciaries, and emergency contacts with the right instructions and private workflow.
Open Support CenterImportant boundary
Planning support is not legal, tax, investment, or insurance advice.
Free resources help you prepare questions. State law and personal circumstances vary. Have a qualified attorney and financial professional review any legal or funding arrangement.
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