MATTER OF LICHTMAN v. HIGHLAND VIEW CEMETERY CORP.


289 A.D.2d 244 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 483

In the Matter of MICHAEL LICHTMAN, Appellant, v. HIGHLAND VIEW CEMETERY CORP. et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided December 3, 2001.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

A petition to disinter is governed by N-PCL 1510 (e), which provides, in pertinent part, that a body may be disinterred upon consent of the cemetery corporation, the owners of the lot, and of the surviving wife, husband, children, and the parents of the deceased. Permission to disinter may be granted by a court if consent cannot be obtained (see, N-PCL 1510 [e]; Matter of Dispenza v St. John's Cemetery,

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