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Maintenance of a cemetery is funded by an endowment care fund built from a percentage of each sale, with only the income spendable. Where the fund is absent or too small, statutes assign residual duties to townships or counties, often triggered only by a finding of abandonment. Descendants rarely compel maintenance but do hold statutory access rights to graves on private land, enforceable by injunction.
Federal regulations require places of lodging to let people with disabilities reserve accessible rooms during the same hours and in the same manner as anyone else, to describe accessible features in enough detail for independent assessment, to hold accessible rooms back until all others of that type are taken, to block a specific reserved room from other systems, and to guarantee it. Three of those duties are relaxed for units the entity does not own or substantially control.
Statutes divide fiduciary authority into acts that may be taken in the ordinary course and acts requiring notice and specific court authorization. The second category typically includes gifts, sale or encumbrance of the adult's home, creating or revoking a trust, changing beneficiaries, exercising an elective share, and making a will. Several personal decisions sit in the same category, including certain psychiatric procedures and, in some states, a move to a more restrictive residence.
For most people placed in removal proceedings, the immigration judge acquires exclusive jurisdiction over any adjustment of status application. The underlying visa petition stays with the benefits agency, which splits a single family case across two forums and drives most of the continuance practice in adjustment cases. Arriving noncitizens are treated differently, and no relief of this kind may be granted until security and identity checks have been reported complete.
Statutes generally allow any adult to be adopted by another adult, on the consent of the person being adopted and often the spouse of each party. Home studies, termination of parental rights and placement supervision do not apply. Some states impose an age difference or a prior relationship requirement, and several restrict adoption of a vulnerable adult or one subject to a guardianship. The decree changes inheritance rights and, in most states, permits a name change.
Before a lien sale the operator must publish an advertisement, typically once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area, with a posting alternative where no such newspaper exists. Statutes increasingly recognize online auction sites, either as a substitute publication or as the sale venue. The sale itself must be conducted in a commercially reasonable manner, which addresses method, publicity and timing rather than price alone.
An amendment to a declaration takes effect only after approval by the percentage the declaration requires, certification in a signed and acknowledged writing, and recording in each county where the property lies. Bylaws are amended by the members and are usually not recorded. Statutes cap how high a declaration may set the threshold, protect certain matters with a unanimous or mortgagee consent requirement, and in several states allow a court to reduce a threshold that cannot be met.
Proceeds of a lien sale are applied first to the amount of the lien and the reasonable costs of sale, with any excess retained on the occupant's behalf. The occupant, or a person holding a court order against the property, may claim the surplus within a statutory period, commonly one or two years. After that the funds are paid to the county treasury or are deemed abandoned. Where the operator's lien lacks priority, proceeds are held for the priority lienholders.
An emergency guardian may be appointed where substantial harm to an adult's health, safety or welfare is likely before a hearing on the main petition and no other person is willing and able to act. The order enumerates only the powers needed to meet the emergency. Duration is capped by statute, commonly sixty or ninety days, with one extension available on a renewed showing. Counsel is appointed immediately, and notice is required unless the court finds it would defeat the purpose.
Most states let a person name, in a signed writing, the individual who will direct disposition of the body. A valid appointment displaces the spouse, the children and everyone else on the priority list. Formalities vary: some statutes require two witnesses, some a notarial acknowledgment, some either. The document only works if the establishment can read it within hours of death, so storage matters more than drafting. Revocation is by a later signed writing.
Where the governing documents require approval before an owner changes a separate interest or the common area, statutes commonly require a fair, reasonable and expeditious procedure with prompt deadlines, a stated maximum response time, a decision made in good faith that is not unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious, a written decision, and an explanation plus a reconsideration route if the request is denied. Deemed approval clauses in the documents are enforced according to their terms.
A person detained by the immigration authorities may ask an immigration judge to redetermine custody. The request goes to the court with jurisdiction over the place of detention, may be made orally or in writing, and is decided in a proceeding kept entirely separate from the removal hearing. The judge may rely on any information presented. After one redetermination, a further request must be written and must show that circumstances have changed materially.
