How do you change title to cemetery deed in Harris County Texas?

Answer 1

This information was provided to me by three different employees of SCI Funeral Services, Inc.

To whom it may concern: A Harris county quick claim is not legal for transfer of cemetery plots.It should be done at the cemetery and we have the forms which have to be notarized. Thank You If I can be of assistance please call me at 281-240-3300

Angie Grisaffe

Family Service Counselor

In order to change a deed into someone else's name, we ask that both parties come into the office with

proper I.D. We will complete a quit claim form and change the deed over to the new party.

The fee is $95.00.

Sincerely,

Marilyn Hubbard

Just wanted to let you know in order to transfer property, both parties must come to cemetery where we will provide necessary quitclaim paperwork. There is a $95.00 transfer fee and both parties will need to bring drivers license. Where open every day, just let the front desk know that your here to transfer property.

Thanks Ap

purchasers of cemetery plots are not vested with an ordinary fee simple title that can be transferred via a quit claim deed filed in a county's property records. See Oak Park Cemtery v. Donaldson, 148 S.W.2d 994 (Tex.Civ.App.-Galveston 1940, writ dismissed). Plots are a right of burial, akin to an easement, license, or privilege.

Texas Health & Safety Code §711.039 describes the requirements for properly transferring plots: "Unless a plot owner who has the exclusive right of sepulture in a plot and who is interred in that plot has made a specific disposition of the plot by express reference to the plot in the owner's will or by written declaration filed and recorded in the office of the cemetery organization: … the owner's children, in order of need, may be interred in any remaining graves, niches, or crypts of the plot without the consent of a person claiming an interest in the plot."

Richard Poulos

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