Control Prior to Probate of the Will<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\nA smart person will observe that Wills are not probated until after<\/u><\/em> the funeral.\u00a0 The funeral agent has no authority until the Will is probated, so how does this work?\u00a0 The probate statute, amended in 2004, states that, \u201cPrior to probate, a decedent\u2019s appointment of a person in a Will to control the funeral and disposition of human remains may be carried out in accordance with 45:27-22.\u00a0 If known to them, a person named as Executor in a Will shall notify such a person of their appointment and advise them of what financial means are available to carry out the funeral disposition arrangements.\u201d\u00a0 NJSA 3B:10-21.1.\u00a0 The Funeral Agent named in a Will has authority prior<\/u><\/em> to probate.<\/p>\nYou Need to Take Action<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\nAvoiding family squabbles during a very stressful time is paramount.\u00a0 An argument over who \u201ccan\u201d act or who \u201chas\u201d legal authority, is unnecessary.\u00a0 Draft a Last Will and name your funeral agent. \u00a0I would be happy to discuss this with you further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cControl over my funeral\u201d is becoming a developing issue in my practice.\u00a0 Funeral directors have asked me to sign statements that I have such authority when I have buried my wards as a court appointed guardian.\u00a0 Now, family survivors are disagreeing over the disposition of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,24,3007],"tags":[904,910,905,909,908,907,219,903,911,45,51,54,912,66,906,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}