SOUTHWESTERN
INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC
SCIENCES
AT DALLAS

Telephone 214-920-5900
2355 N. Stemmons Freeway
DALLAS, TEXAS 75207
(214) 920-5908 - Fax

By signing below, I affirm that I am designated by legal instrument and/or the legal next-of-kin as identified by priority in Sec. 711.02* of the Texas Health and Safety Code with the right to control disposition of the individual listed above.

SOUTHWESTERN
INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC
SCIENCES
AT DALLAS

Telephone 214-920-5900
2355 N. Stemmons Freeway
DALLAS, TEXAS 75207
(214) 920-5908 - Fax

*Except as provided by Subsection (1), unless a decedent has left directions in writing for the disposition of the decedent's remains as provided by Subsection (g), the following persons, in the priority listed, have the right to control the disposition, including cremation, of the decedent's remains, shall inter the remains, and in accordance with Subsection (a-3) are liable for the reasonable cost of interment: (1) the person designated in a written instrument signed by the decedent; (2) the decedent's surviving spouse; (3) any one of the decedent's surviving adult children; (4) either one of the decedent's surviving parents; (5) any one of the decedents surviving adult siblings; (6) any one or more of the duly qualified executors or administrators of the decedent's estate; or (7) any adult person in the next degree of kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the decedent.