Professional Service Charges

We are pleased to provide you with a full disclosure of our professional service charges.

To help you understand funeral costs we have prepared an outline of the categories that make up a funeral account. There are basically four sections that make up a funeral account: casket & merchandise selections, professional service charges, cash disbursements and taxes on applicable items.

To help consumers, legislation states that all funeral homes must provide an itemized price list of all of their related professional service charges as well as casket and merchandise charges. This list must be available at the consumers' request without cost or obligation.

We pride ourselves on always being one of the most reasonably priced funeral homes in the area, although many expect our charges to be much higher given our level of professionalism, the quality of our facilities and our ethical standards. We never encourage a family to make a decision of which firm to allow to conduct the services of a loved one based on costs alone.  There are many factors to consider and costs should just be one of them.  Consumers and families finally can learn first hand in the comfort of your home or office,  that there is a difference in the services and facilities we provide and they do not need to fall into the traps accustomed by many firms who state inappropriate and inaccurate statements by telephone. Today, being good is not good enough. We trust that our services will give you one more reason to give the Funeraria Luz de Paz serious consideration when seeking a funeral home that is pro-actively working towards providing you the highest standards of services and facilities while offering sensible and affordable solutions.

Casket & Merchandise Selections

This section is specific to the casket that a family selects. All of our caskets and merchandise is priced separately - meaning the price you see for the casket is for the casket itself with no other items included. This can often become confusing to families. Some of the other types of merchandise you might find in these section of the funeral account are: burial vaults, cremation urns, and others. Again, each is itemized based on your selection and a total is itemized under the "Casket & Merchandise Selections." 

Cash Disbursements

Cash disbursements are just as they imply: to aid the families we serve, we will cover third party expenses and place them on our account as a convenience until Insurance Proceeds and or other confirmed payments are paid in full.

Strict legislation ensures that these items are not marked up and only the exact "cost" is included on the funeral account. Typical cash disbursements might include:

• Newspaper Notices
• Clergy Honorariums
• Cemetery Charges
• Coroner's Cremation Certificates
• Reception Catering
• Organist/Vocalist Charges
• Death, Burial, & Cremation Permits
• Airline Charges
• Consulate Fees  &  others listed under the Cash Advances