What papers do you need to receive after the death of a person?
The first certificate confirming death is a posthumous epicrisis. It is discharged by an ambulance worker after examining the deceased. This certificate is only useful for obtaining a medical death certificate, which can be issued:
- from a local physician in the clinic at the place of registration of the deceased. This option is acceptable if the deceased had chronic illnesses and was registered at the clinic, and also if the deceased is being prepared for a funeral at home and an autopsy is not required;
- from a mortuary specialist, where the body is prepared for burial. Relatives have the right to refuse the morgue due to religious beliefs or other reasons. An autopsy is required if the deceased was a member of a criminal group, the circumstances of his death are unclear, etc.
In addition, within a seven-day period you must submit an application to the registry office to obtain a stamp certificate. Its registration may take from one day to one month, depending on the circumstances of the case and the availability of the necessary papers.
What should you do immediately after the death of a relative?
There is no need to panic; it is important to imagine the algorithm of actions in order to arrange everything in a timely and correct manner. If the death occurred in a hospital, the doctors themselves will tell you what documents you need to obtain and where to go.
If a person died at home or in another place, then the following must be done:
- call the ambulance staff. They will arrive to record the death and fill out the accompanying sheet and a referral for an autopsy to the pathology department. It is worth understanding that it is possible to refuse an autopsy. If this is not done, then it will be fulfilled, since the consent of the relatives is assumed in the absence of an explicit refusal;
- call a police officer. He must draw up a report together with the physician after examining the body;
- order a specialized car to deliver the body to the morgue;
- contact funeral service employees and get advice on the necessary documents for burying a person.
Usually the body is kept in the morgue for up to two days. During this period, the specialist manages to establish the date, time and cause of death, as well as complete all the necessary paperwork. During this period, it is necessary to complete the basic documents in order to carry out the burial in accordance with Russian laws.
Actions after receiving a death certificate
It can be issued on the day of application. At the same time, it is quite enough to start organizing your own funeral:
- obtain permission to bury the deceased or carry out a cremation procedure with the ashes placed in a niche in the columbarium. To cremate the remains, in addition to the medical certificate, you must provide the passport of the deceased;
- purchase all the materials that will be required for the funeral or order preparation of the deceased in the morgue;
- rent a ritual hall for farewell to the deceased;
- order a memorial service or funeral service;
- rent a hearse to transport the deceased and discuss details (time of release of the body, time of funeral service, farewell, etc.);
- pay for the preparation of the cemetery site (if a traditional burial method is used);
- order a funeral menu and agree on the provision of a hall.
A funeral agency will help organize and conduct the funeral. Depending on the client’s wishes, the list of services can include not only monitoring of each stage of the farewell to the deceased, but also arranging a memorial meal, issuing all the necessary certificates and resolving bureaucratic issues. The ritual agent will provide the relatives of the deceased with the opportunity to calmly say goodbye to their loved one, sending him on his last journey.
Procedure for submitting documents for discharge
After collecting the papers, the relative should contact the passport office, which includes the last address of the deceased, or the MFC. The service for de-registration of a deceased person is free, you do not need to pay anything. The passport office employee immediately performs all necessary actions. Confirmation is an extract from the house register.
To re-register a personal account for payment of utility bills, relatives should contact the Management Company or HOA. Management company employees will recalculate from the date of death of the deceased. If the apartment is municipal, you will need to re-register the social tenancy agreement with the local administration. A new contract will be signed if the tenant has been registered in the apartment.
Why issue a stamp death certificate?
Despite the extensive list of possibilities, a medical certificate is not the final option and has limited functions. In particular, it is not enough when:
- organizing cargo transportation 200;
- entering into inheritance and resolving other property disputes;
- deregistration of the deceased;
- installation of monuments and other elements of the tombstone complex;
- carrying out burials in the graves of relatives, etc.
To the capabilities indicated above, you can add the same functions as when preparing a medical document. Relatives or proxies responsible for the burial process can: rent a place in the cemetery or a niche in the columbarium; order preparation of the body, including for long-term storage or transportation; purchase goods for specific purposes; order the organization of a funeral at a funeral bureau; rent a hall for the last farewell and a room for a funeral meal.
A stamp certificate gives the right to receive state benefits, which is quite enough to conduct a funeral at the proper level.
If you plan to cremate the remains, you must make a photocopy of the deceased’s passport in advance. Since when issuing a stamp document, all other papers are confiscated.
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Today, the Central Court of Orenburg will begin to consider the claim for the eviction of Svetlana Popova and her minor daughters from their occupied living space.
In Orenburg, due to the fault of scammers, a mother and two children are thrown onto the street
Like the 36-year-old Orenburg woman, essentially anyone can fall for scammers. When she purchased her own apartment in 2012, she could not have imagined that she would live in it quietly for only six months, and then again find herself without a roof over her head.
“After my mother’s death, my sister and I sold her two-room apartment and divided the money in half, each getting 900,000 rubles,” Svetlana began her story. — I added 180 thousand rubles and, based on an advertisement in the newspaper “From Hand to Hand,” purchased an old apartment without hot water with an area of 33.7 square meters at Yaitskaya Street, 35 A. As expected, we concluded a purchase and sale agreement with the seller at the MFC , which states that this apartment belonged to the seller as private property, that no one is registered in it and there are no persons retaining the right to use this apartment. I was also surprised then that the neighbors were somehow strangely interested in whether I really bought this apartment. Svetlana and her 9-year-old daughter successfully celebrated their housewarming, but the happiness from the long-awaited purchase did not last long. A few months later, the heir to the property appeared on the doorstep of the apartment. It so happened that she entered into the right of inheritance in 2011, and turned to a notary for recognition of this right only in 2013, when the apartment had already been sold.
— My stepdaughter lived in this apartment with her stepfather for a long time. After his death, she considered that this home was hers, although he had other relatives. 21-year-old Irina Dudnichenkova, in collusion with realtor Sergei Lobanov, fraudulently registered ownership of this apartment, which essentially did not belong to her, and sold it using forged documents. The question arises as to how the justice formalized the deal,” the woman continues.
As a result, after a while, a legal heir appeared - the sister of the deceased stepfather, who, of course, sued for her square meters. The certificate of state registration of the right to real estate and the purchase and sale agreement that Svetlana had were declared invalid and the deal was cancelled. Later, in 2014, a trial was held over the scammers who deceived the woman. They were given about five and about two years in prison, and it turned out that this realtor deceived not only Svetlana. The seller of the apartment has even already served the sentence imposed on her by the court verdict and has been released, but this does not make it any easier for Svetlana, who is a disabled person of the second group. The fact is that the court deprived the scammers of their freedom, but did not oblige the scammers to compensate for the damage caused by illegal actions. The convicts already have huge debts; there is simply nothing to take from them. That’s what they told me in court: don’t expect anything from them, don’t count on compensation for damages,” sighs Svetlana, who had a second daughter in this apartment; little Eva is now only two years old. “It turns out that the heiress has come into her own, I am being evicted to the street, and there is no one to return the money that I paid when buying this property. We have nowhere to go with our daughters; I have no other place to live. I don’t know what to do after the court decides to evict. I wanted to get an appointment with the head of the city, the governor, but they didn’t make an appointment for me, citing the fact that I had a court case; they still couldn’t help. I wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office - to no avail, the guardianship authorities also just shrugged their shoulders. How so?!" ...But you write that you can only inherit what the deceased owned at the time of death, and in this case the apartment was sold.
What to do if a relative or loved one dies abroad
An application for the death of a person is submitted to the registry office at the place of the incident, as well as to the consulate of the Russian Federation (or the country of which the deceased relative was a citizen and ensure that an entry is made in the register).
Contact the morgue with the deceased relative’s compulsory medical insurance policy, passport, medical card of the deceased relative, and also attach the examination report of the deceased and the applicant’s passport, where they will issue a medical certificate of death.
Based on a medical examination, obtain at the place of residence of the deceased a death certificate on stamped paper and a completed form 33 (certificate of death).
At the embassy or consulate, employees of organizations are obliged to provide all possible assistance and support, both in registering the death of a relative and in issuing the necessary documents related to this. Among other things, assistance is provided in transporting the deceased to their homeland. All expenses associated with organizing the transportation of the body and completing the necessary papers are paid from the funds of the compulsory medical insurance issued before traveling abroad. If the deceased took out insurance, the company that insured him will pay most of the costs.
Exceptions are cases in which the deceased committed an intentional offense, suicide, as well as in the case of the use of narcotic or alcoholic substances. In addition, it will be difficult to obtain payment if the deceased participated in strikes or was listed as an employee of the security or military forces.
The main documents of title for sending a deceased relative are a passport of the deceased with the proper stamp, a certificate of his death, which states that he died abroad. The document must be certified by a notary.
It is important to note that the death form is not sufficient to issue a death certificate issued by the Civil Registry Office. If the certificate was issued by an emergency doctor on the spot or was issued by a local doctor, it is also necessary to go to the clinic, show the passport of the deceased, the form filled out at the scene of the incident with the fact of death, and the applicant’s passport. In addition to the above, you will need a medical card of the deceased (must be kept in the registry). An outpatient card of the deceased will also be required, which, however, should be located in the clinic.
The registration procedure is the same both in the morgue and in the hospital. The outpatient card should not be provided in these institutions.