Death Certificates. The justice of the peace or County Judge representative who requested the postmortem examination be performed shall provide the FBCME with a copy of the signed Certificate of Death no later than fourteen (14) days after receipt of the autopsy report. Failure to comply with this provision may result in termination of the contract by Fort Bend County.
Death Certificates. The Death Certificate Information Form completed by the legal Next-of-kin (or person acting as such) will be used to electronically file the Death Certificate with the State of Texas during those staff members normal business hours as shown at the bottom of this form. Staff will then contact the Next-of-kin to proofread and confirm the demographic information via email if one is provided on donation paperwork or via phone if no email is provided.
Death Certificates. Our office does file a death certificate on behalf of the family using the information that either the deceased completed prior to passing with our program as a member of the UT Southwestern Willed Body Program or the next of kin and/or other persons acting as such completed at time of passing. These donation forms provide our office the pertinent information needed to electronically file a death certificate with the state of Texas and the local registrar’s office where family will be purchasing the death certificate once completed. Although we do obtain the information and complete the filing process of a death certificate for all of our donors on behalf of their families our office does not purchase nor provide any death certificates to our families, Rather, we provide the information of where to make your purchase of the death certificate. It is solely the responsibility of the next of kin or person’s acting as such to make this purchase. The filing process of a death certificate usually takes 10-14 business days with the exclusion of any national holidays and/or doctor’s availability make cause delays in the filing process. In the processing of filing the death certificate electronically if our office is provided a social security number on the donation paperwork an electronic notification is sent to the social security administration to verify the legal name of the deceased, their date of birth, and their social security number for accuracy. Our office does not contact social security via phone, fax , or mail to make any benefit changes. The next of kin or person acting as such will need to contact social security to make those benefit changes once they have purchased a death certificate and can provide one to their local social security office. You can contact the social security administration at 0-000-000-0000 or online at xxx.xxx.xxx to locate your local office and make an appointment. Our office does reach out to the next of kin or person acting as such to confirm the death certificate demographics via email if one is provided or via phone if an email is not provided to our office. We do ask that if you do provide an email that you are checking the email regularly for communication with the death certificate services office, this does also include the Junk/Spam folders as our emails are sometimes flagged as such. If we receive no response after multiple attempts we will file a death certificate as is and it will be at the responsibility of the ne...
Death Certificates. The justice of the peace who requested the postmortem examination be performed shall provide the Medical Examiner with a copy of the signed Certificate of Death no later than fourteen (14) days after receipt of the autopsy report. Failure to comply with this provision may result in termination of the contract by Xxxxxx County.
Death Certificates. The justice of the peace who requested the postmortem examination shall provide the Medical Examiner with a copy of the signed Certificate of Death immediately upon filing with the local registrar.
