The onus is on the family, obviously, to disclose the proper information to a funeral home concerning who the person is who is legally responsible for the arrangements. We make that a policy within our funeral home. It's not a mandated nationwide application, but a lot of funeral homes subscribe to that. We ask for that first page of the will so we can see the executor's name.
If that will is superseded by a newer will, how would we really know? We have to go with what they're bringing in to us. If there has been one since the one that the person is producing, until we see a newer one we have to assume that this is the correct information.
As far as funeral homes go, I would say we try to validate the person we are dealing with as best we can, so when we issue our statements and we show the person who is in charge of our documents, to our minds and to the best of our knowledge, the information is correct.