Transfers and inheritance

A right of interment can move to someone else — sold on, given, inherited, or simply corrected — through the transfer wizard, which always needs a second set of eyes before it takes effect.

Propose, then verify

• 1. From the right's card, choose Transfer and pick a basis: sale, gift, inheritance, surrender, adding or removing a holder, or a correction.
• 2. Enter the new holders, attach a document link if you have one (a will, a notarized statement), and add a note explaining the transfer.
• 3. Propose the transfer. It now waits for someone else to check it.
• 4. A priest or admin reviews and verifies it. On verify, the old right is closed out and a fresh right is issued to the new holders, with a brand-new certificate.

When the basis is inheritance

Minnesota law (§525.14) sets the order in which a right passes when a holder dies — surviving spouse first, then the eldest surviving child, then the youngest surviving sibling, and finally the cemetery holds it in trust if no one comes forward. Vianney lists this order for you as a starting point; it never assigns a right automatically. You still confirm with real documentation before proposing the transfer.

Why the two-step

A change to who holds a right is treated the same careful way as a sacramental record — proposed, then verified by someone with the authority to confirm it — rather than edited quietly in place.

Tips

• A brand-new deed prints automatically once a transfer is verified; the old certificate stays on file as history.
• Editing a holder's phone, email, or address in place is fine and does not need a transfer — only a change to *who* holds the right does.