This is a good question: the subject of many lawsuits and considerable confusion, even amongst the legal community. The owner of the burial right, initially, is who is declared as the owner upon purchase, and recorded as such in the cemetery’s records. Continue Reading..

No. Perpetual care statutes are a fairly recent legislative enactment in the United States in response of providing some means to properly care for cemeteries in the future. In Kentucky the perpetual care statutes were enacted in the early 1980’s.Continue Reading..