[WSBAPT] Suggestions Needed Regarding Memorial Plaque

[Jennifer L White]

Spencer,
This appears to be more of an interpersonal situation than a legal one (absent express direction from decedent, husband trumps parents on control RCW 68.50.160). Is there a clergy/spiritual/trusted friend familiar with the family that could interact with everyone? Parents send S-I-L a letter expressing their feelings and how important this monument is to them? Family counseling/mediation?

Jennifer L. White, Esq.
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Subject: [WSBAPT] Suggestions Needed Regarding Memorial Plaque

Hello listmates -

I have a client who has asked for help with a situation that I can't quite figure out an angle on. His adult daughter died about 3 years ago. She was married. Her ashes have been placed in a niche at a local cemetery, but her husband (client's son-in-law) has not had a plaque put on the niche. This is upsetting to the client and his ex-wife every time they visit. The contract with the cemetery is in the son-in-law's name. The client has offered to take care of getting the plaque made and installed, but the son-in-law insists he will take care of it. It's gotten to the point that the son-in-law is quite testy about it every time it comes up. Is there anything the client can do to force the son-in-law to get this done? It doesn't seem to fall within anything having to do with custody or disposition of remains and it also doesn't seem to have anything to do with the late daughter's estate to bring in TEDRA.

Thanks.


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