Conveyance Cemetery Without A Will In Riverside
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This is one of the first questions people ask when buying a burial plot, and the answer is no. In the U.S., a purchased cemetery plot belongs to you forever. In some instances, however, if a cemetery is considered “abandoned,” the state can reclaim the land and discontinue interments.
Owned and managed by local government entities like a city or town, municipal cemeteries are typically operated as non-profits. Revenue from interments and memorials covers the costs of upkeep and maintenance.
And public records. Let's get started can a cemetery move a grave without permission. No a cemeteryMoreAnd public records. Let's get started can a cemetery move a grave without permission. No a cemetery cannot move a grave without permission.
Ideally, the cemetery will be moved (both the headstones and the remains) when the church next to is torn down or when the community that it serves expands to encompass it, or is itself abandoned. Another area is purchased to replace the cemetery (or donated) and the remains are interred at the new location.
In the US, most cemetery plots are actually platted with a lot number, just like a subdivision. You are given a deed showing you're the owner, the legal description of the plot, and any restrictions.
Often, a cemetery will issue a ``deed'' at the sale of a grave space or lot of graves. This deed is NOT an issuance of any real estate. It is, in fact, a promissory note which prevents the cemetery from using that, particular space to bury anyone else.
Moving a grave requires an exhumation license, state permits, and other paperwork that could become costly. Proper authorities, under the direction of an environmental health officer, have to oversee the process of having the body exhumed, and you have to have a funeral director present.
A husband and wife are interred in the same plot unless both were Veterans. In that case, they may be buried side by side in separate plots. Cremated remains are buried in the ground in specially designated sections of the cemetery or in above ground columbaria.
Home burials are technically legal in every state except: California.