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Expert support and in resolving disputes over the right to arrange a funeral

These disputes are usually highly emotive and should be dealt with respectfully and sensitively. They require urgent resolution, ideally by seeking an agreement between the parties but sometimes the Courts do have to intervene as a last resort.

If there is a Will, it is common to see a clause containing funeral wishes, but it is important to note that those wishes are not legally binding.

There is no ownership in a corpse, and so it is not deemed as property. However, there is a duty to dispose of a body, and this duty lies with the executor named in the will, or where there is an intestacy the administrator’s name on the letters of administration. If the deceased dies without a will and there is no personal representative appointed, then there is an order of priority which is set out in Rule 22 of the Non Contentious Probate Rules 1987.

Conflicts commonly arise where there is more than one person equally entitled to dispose of the body and they may disagree on how and where the body is disposed.

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