Zaytsev O.A., Grachev R.Yu. A lifetime funeral service contract as a way to prevent the funeral sphere criminalization

Abstract: The article considers the peculiarities of a lifetime funeral services contract. The authors provide its legal qualification as a means of prevention of the funeral sphere criminalization. The paper substantiates the recommendations on the improvement of the federal law draft “On funeral services in the Russian Federation”. As a rule, the law presupposes a written form of a remunerative service contract, according to the clause 1, article 161 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which runs that the deals between legal entities with the participation of citizens, or between citizens, in sum more than 10 times exceeding the minimal remuneration of labor rate, should be concluded in a written form. To achieve the research goals the authors apply the general scientific and special methods of analysis, synthesis, the structural-logical method and other methods of scientific cognition. The authors conclude that a lifetime funeral service contract is a form of remunerative service agreement in favor of a third person with a suspensive condition. With a view to increase the guarantees of a proper implementation of this treaty it is considered reasonable to legalize a trilateral construction of this contract: one party is a customer and a payer of a funeral service, expressing his will to be buried in a certain place, according to certain traditions; another party is an executor of a contract – a funeral service; the third party is an agent, responsible for the execution of the will of the customer in the case of his death. The third party should gain the status of the ritual services customer. 

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