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Ind. Code § 23-14-41-5

Waiver of burial rights

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15.

Sec. 5. (a) A:

(1) surviving spouse; or

(2) parent, child, or heir;

of the deceased record owner of a family burial plot who has a right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in the plot may waive that right in favor of another relative or spouse of the deceased record owner through a written instrument that is recorded with the cemetery.

(b) After a written waiver is recorded under subsection (a), the body of the individual in whose favor the waiver is made may be interred, entombed, or inurned in the family burial plot.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.