§ 8627 Joint Tenancy Cemetery Exemption

• •If two or more people own a cemetery plot together, the usual rules for proving someone died don’t apply to them.
• •When one owner dies, the other owners don’t have to go through extra legal steps to prove the death just to keep using the cemetery plot.
• •This law only applies to cemetery property, not other types of shared property.

Two siblings own a family burial plot together. One sibling passes away.

The living sibling doesn’t need to go to court or file special papers to prove the death just to keep control of the burial plot. The law makes it simpler for them.