Advance Directive By STATE

State by State Advance Directives. Courtesy of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.




Death Certificates

A Certified Death Certificate is an integral part of closing out accounts and estates, and is necessary before anything can be done.  A death certificate can be obtained through a Funeral Director.  It is a good idea to obtain multiple copies of a death certificate as most agencies require a certified certificate and not a photocopy.

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Death Certificates BY STATE

Order death certificates online by State


Alabama         Alaska             Arizona            Arkansas         California        Colorado          Connecticut    

Delaware        Florida             Georgia           Hawaii             Idaho               Illinois             Indiana        Iowa    Kansas             

Kentucky         Louisiana         Maine            Maryland    Massachusetts            Michigan         Minnesota      

Mississippi      Missouri          Montana         Nebraska        Nevada            New Hampshire         New Jersey

New Mexico   New York        North Carolina       North Dakota         Ohio    Oklahoma            Oregon        

Pennsylvania         Rhode Island         South Carolina    South Dakota           Tennessee       Texas 

Utah    Vermont         Virginia           Washington                West Virginia              Wisconsin       Wyoming



Digital Estate Planning Laws By STATE

At least 42 states since 2013 have enacted laws addressing access to email, social media accounts, microblogging or other website accounts, or certain electronically stored information, upon a person’s incapacity or death. Nevada law provides for the termination of decedents' social media accounts.

The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) in 2014 approved the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (UFADAA) and in July 2015, the ULC issued a revised version of UFADAA--the Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, Revised (2015). Model legislation was also developed by Netchoice, the Privacy Expectations Afterlife and Choices Act (PEAC). The ULC chart, Comparison of UFADAA, PEAC and Revised UFADAA, details the provisions of the three model acts. –Courtesy of the National Conference of State Legislatures (ncsl.org, 2017)


Alabama      Alaska      Arizona      Arkansas      California        Colorado          Connecticut     

Delaware        Florida             Georgia           Hawaii            Idaho               Iowa                Illinois             Indiana            Kansas           

Kentucky         Louisiana            Maine              Maryland        Massachusetts            Michigan         Minnesota   

Mississippi      Missouri          Montana         Nebraska            Nevada    New Hampshire         New Jersey    

New Mexico   New York       North Carolina      North Dakota      Ohio     Oklahoma       Oregon

            Pennsylvania              Rhode Island         South Carolina      South Dakota              Tennessee            Texas 

Utah                Vermont          Virginia           Washington    West Virginia              Wisconsin       Wyoming



Organ Donation Registries by State

Organ Donation Information.  Courtesy of U. S. Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation


 Alabama         Alaska             Arizona            Arkansas         California        Connecticut    

Delaware        Florida             Georgia            Hawaii            Idaho         Illinois     Indiana            Iowa                Kansas  

          Kentucky         Louisiana         Maine              Maryland            Massachusetts            Michigan         Minnesota

       Mississippi      Missouri          Montana         Nebraska        Nevada           New Hampshire            New Jersey

    New Mexico   New York        North Carolina      North Dakota      Ohio      Oklahoma       Oregon

            Pennsylvania              Rhode Island               South Carolina South Dakota              Tennessee       Texas 

Utah    Vermont          Virginia            Washington    West Virginia              Wisconsin       Wyoming