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FAQs

Who oversees funeral homes in Texas? ›

Funeral Services or Establishments - The Texas Funeral Service Commission regulates and licenses funeral establishments and funeral directors.

Authorize the agency to seek injunctive relief through the attorney general to pursue unlicensed activity, and to take disciplinary action against a licensed funeral establishment, commercial embalming facility, or crematory that assists or allows an individual to engage in unlicensed activity, including practicing ...

Texas has approximately 1128 funeral homes across the state. While most funeral homes provide the same basic services, choosing a provider on price alone is never ideal. We invite you to select a specific funeral home or compare funeral homes in any area in the state.

The effects of a death on public health usually take several days to manifest. In the absence of embalming within 24 hours, it is not advised to embalm the body immediately. A morgue can preserve a body for one week at most. About a week passes before embalmed bodies decompose.

If you cannot afford a burial or cremation, you can sign a form with the county coroner's office and the state will bury or cremate the body for you. This will be at no cost, but you won't have any say in where or how.

If you die without having a written document that appoints someone to make decisions about your remains, then your “next of kin” will have the right to control what happens to your body. In Texas, “next of kin” means your relative(s) in the following order: surviving spouse. surviving adult children.

While Texas law says that the decedent's estate is liable to pay for most of the decedent's funeral costs, the funeral home or provider may include language in their contract to make the surviving spouse or other party personally liable for these costs.

Answer: No, embalming is not required by state law, unless the body is held in any place or in transit for more than 24 hours and not refrigerated at a temperature within the range of 34o - 40o Fahrenheit.

Does Texas require a container if my loved on is cremated? Texas law requires that people that will be cremated be placed in a combustible container; however, embalming and a casket are not required.

Can a person be buried on their own property in Texas? ›

Can You Bury a Body at Home in Texas? There are no state laws in Texas prohibiting home burial, but local governments may have rules governing private burials. Before burying a body on private property or establishing a family cemetery, you should check with the county or town clerk for any zoning laws you must follow.

Further, complaints pertaining to a funeral director or a funeral establishment should be directed to the Texas Funeral Services Commission. However, the three regulatory agencies share information and forward misdirected complaints to the regulatory agency charged with the statutory authority to obtain resolution.

The Funeral Rule, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), makes it possible for you to choose only those goods and services you want or need and to pay only for those you select, whether you are making arrangements when a death occurs or in advance.

Funeral director is the modern term for the funeral home staff member who oversees every aspect of funeral arrangements for deceased people.