Children and Pets Protection During Incapacity

Your plan can include instructions and authorizations for your children’s physical care and for your pets’ physical care for when you become incapacitated.

Immediate actions can go into place. You will have good instructions for Child Protective Services (CPS) that help them get your children and your pets into the caretakers that you want without the delay of them having to try to figure that out on their own. Instructions are provided to police and emergency responders that clearly provide them legal instructions about who to release your children and pets to. You protect your children and your pets by deciding who will take care of them if you’re not able to do so. You will have the legal documents in place that allow them to act immediately. You should provide these instructions to your childcare providers.