Fedor Kupriyanov, lawyer:
According to the current Civil code, the cat is the thing – movable property, and not the subject of hereditary legal relationship. Murzik you can sell, and bequeath him money to feed it is impossible. However, there are other legal system. In the Internet you can find the rating of the richest animals in other countries personally owning hundreds of millions of dollars.
What do the Russians going to do much good for your cat? Russia has a very developed law of succession. And if anyone wants to provide a comfortable future favorite animal to its “grave”, it is perhaps possible to arrange.
for Example, you can include in a will “testamentary laying” (article 1139 of the Civil code). It says this. The testator has the right to entrust one or several heirs a duty to maintain the testator owned Pets as well as to carry out the necessary supervision and care.
it would Seem a simple and reliable solution? But the execution of any “testamentary laying” remain on the conscience of the heir or heirs, to whom it is addressed. Cat self protect their rights to fail, and control the execution of wills in part to the well-being of cats, the legislator did not foresee. However, such control can be achieved by using the same instrument. One heir receives a bequest, in addition to the property, and even order to contain the cat, and the second heir to the first control on the part of worthy content pet. However, there is a danger that the heirs agree and throw the cat outside.
2019 domestic law provided the citizens of another legal opportunity, allowing more reliability to fulfil the orders of the testator on their animals. And not only about them.
Now, the testator may create a “genetic Fund” (article 123.20-1 of the civil code). This Institute was established precisely in order to large state do not fall into the wrong hands or malodostoynye heirs. Often it is not only the interests of a group of people United by kinship ties, dependents or cats, but about the fate of large groups of workers of the enterprises owned by the testator. Their employees may lose their job due to poor management of the heirs received by the business or because of years of litigation on the division of the inheritance, in which candidates not to the problems of production.
Inherited Fund will be created after the death of a citizen is to control his hereditary property. In particular, the Fund on its income or its property may, in accordance with the will or the Charter to contain the cat of the testator and all koshkino offspring. And onlife the contents of orphaned cats, dogs and Canaries does not exclude the transfer of much of the profits or assets of the Fund in the hands of the heirs of citizens or for the funding of any charitable projects. Nobel prize for more than 100 years finances it inherited the Alfred Nobel Fund.
