Your pets depend on you. Make sure they're cared for — even when you can't be there.
138|116|An Honorary Trust (commonly called a Pet Trust) is a trust established to care for one or more animals after the owner's death or incapacity. Unlike traditional trusts that require human beneficiaries, honorary trusts are purpose trusts — they exist to accomplish a specific purpose: the care, feeding, and medical treatment of your companion animals. All 50 states now recognize pet trusts, making them fully enforceable.
145|123|Forged in Trust's pet trust platform covers every detail that matters for your companion's well-being: caregiver designation, backup caregiver, detailed care instructions (diet, veterinary preferences, medication), funding amount, and remainder beneficiary. Because your best friend deserves nothing less.
165|143|An Honorary Trust (also called a Purpose Trust) holds assets for a specific non-charitable purpose rather than for human beneficiaries. The trust cares for a pet, maintains a grave site, preserves a collection, or funds a personal ritual — purposes that lack a human beneficiary capable of enforcing the trust. The trustee is bound by the trust instrument to carry out the stated purpose for the duration specified, up to the common law perpetuity period or the UTC's 21-year limit for non-charitable purpose trusts.
169|147|The Honorary Trust ensures that assets are dedicated to the specified purpose after the trust creator's death — a pet receives lifetime care funded by trust assets, a grave is maintained, a collection stays intact. The trust appoints an enforcer — a person with standing to petition the court if the trustee fails to carry out the purpose. While honorary trusts are not enforceable by beneficiaries in the traditional sense, the enforcer provision creates a practical enforcement mechanism backed by the court's equity jurisdiction.
173|151|After creation: (1) Fund the trust with sufficient assets to cover the expected lifetime costs of the stated purpose. (2) Designate a successor trustee and successor enforcer in the trust instrument. (3) Provide the trustee with detailed care instructions — veterinarian contacts for pet trusts, cemetery plot location for grave maintenance, collection inventory for preservation trusts. (4) File the trust instrument with the trust creator's will for coordination. (5) Trustee must provide annual accounting to the enforcer. (6) At trust termination: trustee distributes remaining assets per the trust's remainder provisions.
177|155|Generate an attorney-review-ready honorary trust in under 15 minutes. Backed by ChainLock™ blockchain anchoring for immutable proof of execution.
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191|169|192|170| Every document generated by Forged in Trust is anchored to two blockchains simultaneously. A SHA-256 hash of the executed document is embedded in a Bitcoin OP_RETURN — immutable, permanent, secured by the highest hashrate on Earth. The same hash is recorded on Polygon via TrustAnchor.sol for instant verification and smart contract integration. Dual-chain anchoring eliminates single-point failure. Bitcoin proves existence. Polygon enables programmatic access. Year 1 free with every trust. Year 2+ $97/yr Standard / $197/yr Premium. 193|171|
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221|199|Your trust instrument is one of the most important legal documents you will ever create. Here is why anchoring it to the blockchain changes everything.
227|205|A SHA-256 cryptographic hash of your executed trust is permanently embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain — the most secure computing network in human history. Once recorded, the hash cannot be altered, deleted, or disputed. If anyone later claims the trust was modified or never existed, the blockchain proves which document existed on which date. No court can override mathematics.
233|211|Trust documents get lost in moves. They get destroyed in fires, floods, and earthquakes. Disgruntled parties destroy them. Law firms close and lose their files. The blockchain does not lose documents. It does not burn. It does not flood. Your trust exists forever — independent of any physical copy.
239|217|In a trust dispute, the burden of proof falls on the party asserting the document's validity. The blockchain flips this dynamic. The timestamp is mathematical — not testimonial. No witness can forget. No memory can fade. The blockchain is the witness that cannot be cross-examined. Present the Blockstream Explorer link in court. The judge can verify it independently.
245|223|When action is needed, your trustee and beneficiaries do not need to find a law firm, open a safe deposit box, or petition a court just to confirm the trust exists. They visit the verification page. They see the blockchain proof. Immediate. Irrefutable. No waiting. No gatekeepers.
251|229|The Bitcoin blockchain is maintained by tens of thousands of nodes across every continent. No government can shut it down. No corporation can delete it. No law firm can lose it. The proof of your trust exists independently of Forged in Trust, independently of any institution, independently of any jurisdiction. Even if this company ceases to exist, the Bitcoin blockchain will still contain your document's fingerprint.
257|235|Bitcoin has been running continuously since January 3, 2009 — through financial crises, wars, pandemics, and regime changes. It has never been hacked. It has never been shut down. It has never lost a single transaction. Your trust, anchored to Bitcoin, will outlast the law firm that drafted it, the bank that stored it, and the government that notarized it. Your great-grandchildren will be able to verify it.
263|241|$497/year maintains the chain.
269|247|One price. Every tier. That covers re-verification, chain monitoring, amendment re-anchoring, and the infrastructure that keeps your trust's proof permanently alive on both Bitcoin and Polygon. Lawyers charge $8,000+ for a single blockchain anchoring. We maintain both chains for $497/year — and the proof never expires.
270|248|Why blockchain and quantum anchoring matters for a Honorary Trust
282|260|An Honorary Trust is established for a non-charitable purpose — typically the care of a pet or maintenance of a grave or monument. Because there is no human beneficiary with standing to enforce the trust, these trusts are particularly vulnerable to neglect or misappropriation by the trustee. Blockchain anchoring creates a permanent record of the settlor's intent and the trustee's obligations, providing evidence that can be presented to a court by any interested party.
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