Deciding grave ownership where the owner has died.

Shezzy1

My husband is executor going through probate. He has been told by the funeral director ‘before they can replace the headstone or write the epitaph he has to get all 5 siblings to reign a renunciation form. Is this true or as executor can he take grave ownership as executor? The 5 siblings will not sign anything, answer calls or reply to-mails - we don’t know how to move forward. We can’t get the headstone sorted. 

Keep_pedalling

I am pretty sure this is within the executors power to do alone. Has your husband checked with the grave yard owners directly?

Shezzy1

It’s a council owned cemetery but he hasn’t checked directly with the council. We can do this tomorrow. However, the forms we have been sent have been sent from the local authority. I’ve read a few websites who state once a grant of probate is given he can complete an accent of executor. The funeral director has never mentioned this. 

SevenOfNine

Are you saying a burial or ashes interment has already taken place before the burial rights were transferred?

Shelldean

All I can do is tell you what happened in our situation!
Hubby grandfather died in 1970's grandmother purchased the plot.
But places it in her son's name. He is an only child.
Grand mother remarried but wishes to be buried with first husband.
So when she does in 2013 we had a problem as her son had predeceased her in 2005!!
To open the grave to place her in and to do the stone, My husband her granson,the executor had to get a declaration from her son's  wife (his mum) and his two sisters saying none of them wished to own the grave. Then plus a nice few it was transferred to hubby.

The reason we was given was because it was in deceased sons name, it was his. All his estate went to his wife. So her renouncment was needed.
With her renouncement it went to her three children. Hubby and two sisters. So the two sisters renounced the right to grave, leaving just hubby to own it.

This was also a council owned graveyard!