If you have pets, here are some good places to start planning for their care after you die.

• One of the best information sources is “When Your Pet Outlives You,” a book by David Congalton and Charlotte Alexander than covers trusts, wills, caretakers, laws in different states, and much more.
• ItsMyLife.com offers a one-year membership for $19.95 that allows unlimited access to create and print legal documents.  Two people can join for $29.90.
• www.legalzoom.com, a Web site that provides legal document-preparation services, has information on pet trusts.  Go to the Web site and search for ”pet trust.”
• Fillmore-based Humane Animal Rescue Team has two documents that can help with planning.  The ‘Pets Right to Live Declaration’ and advance directive durable power of attorney allow you to provide information to third parties on how you wish to have your pets cared for should you die or become incapacitated.  To get copies of both documents, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to HART, P.O. Box 920, Fillmore, CA  93016.  Donations to help defray the group’s operating costs are welcome, but not necessary.