Rights of Disposition
All 50 states have a provision for you to name the person who will make your funeral arrangements on your behalf. This person is known as:
Authorizing Agent
A gift of real or personal property:
Device
The attention reasonably expected from, and ordinarily exercised by a person who seeks to satisfy a legal requirement or to discharge an obligation:
Due Diligence
Who has the primary right to seek disinterment
Spouse
Give an example of real property
House
Land
Fixtures
Which of the following would likely have the right of disposition in the case of the death of a minor with divorced parents?
A. Mother
B. Father
C. Mother and Father
D. Depends on who had custody
Mother and Father
Insolvent Estate
Mrs. Smith comes into your funeral home's care wearing what appears to be a gold, diamond ring. How would you properly document this?
ring with yellow band and clear stone
Who MUST be involved in private disinterments?
Funeral Director
Multiple ownership in which the owner cannot name and heir; if one owner dies, the other owner(s) inherit the deceased's portion
Joint Tenancy
If a family asks for a funeral to remain private, which right are they exercising?
Right to Control Funeral
Dying without a will in place is called:
Intestate
If a family comes to view their loved one at a visitation and the deceased has a pungent odor, the family can sue for:
Negligent Embalming
Breach of Contract
The placing of a remains in a crypt or mausoleum
Entombment
What might you want to obtain to ensure that the deed is "clean" without any liens against the property?
Abstract of Title
If a family is with a decedent when they die, they are said to have which type of custody
Actual Custody
An oral will declared or dictated by a testator during their last illness before appropriate witnesses to dispose of personal property and afterwards is reduced to writing is called:
Nuncupative Will
You are working a funeral service and know that a ring should come off of the deceased and be returned to the spouse prior to the casket being closed. You forget to do this a bury the ring by mistake. The family can sue for:
Negligent Funeral Directing
Breach of Contract
The conclusive performance of services with respect to the dead human body by one of the legally recognized methods is called
Final Disposition
The lender that approves and accepts giving the loan on real property is called
Mortgagor
From the time the funeral director makes a transfer into their care until the time of disposition, the funeral director is considered:
Custodian
Largest and most complete right in property in which upon the death of the owner, the property passes to a named person in the will or the deceased's heirs
Fee Simple Estate
Synonymous with shameful, depravity, wickedness
Moral Turpitude
What costs are associated with disinterment/reinterment?
opening and closing x2
New Vault
Possibly new Casket
New Grave Space
Transportation
The type of deed that transfers whatever interests the grantor has in the property to the grantee is called
Quitclaim Deed