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NOVEMBER 2014
FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS
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Creedy and McQueen Form Succession
Planning Associates
Alan Creedy
Bill McQueen
RALEIGH,NC—
AlanCreedy
and
Bill McQueen
have an-
nounced they have aligned to
form
Succession Planning
Associates.
This joint ven-
ture leverages their distinctive
professional skills and exhaus-
tive deathcare
knowledge
to discover, develop and
deliver an actionable plan
to transfer successfully a
firm’s business to family
members, key employees or
third parties.
Presently, succession planning has become less about “get-
ting out” than it is about having a plan, one that optimizes in-
come for retirement without crippling the firm’s ability to re-
main viable. With more than 60 years combined experience,
Creedy and McQueen offer a unique resource in exploring
and evaluating the many options, strategies as well as tax and
family issues involved in succession planning.
Creedy has enjoyed a successful career building, restor-
ing and developing companies. Creedy is widely acknowl-
edged as one of the profession’s leading experts on strat-
egy and trends. McQueen, a licensed funeral director, led
Anderson-McQueen
to its current status as one of funer-
al service’s most admired firms. McQueen recently tran-
sitioned out of the family funeral home into a full-time
career as estate attorney and legal advisor. Both men also
hold certified public accounting (CPA) licenses.
The pair has launched a website to promote their endeavor,
site features articles, informa-
sources including a free Sellabil-
ity Score tool. The Sellability Score is an interactive feature
that provides a comprehensive assessment of the “sellability”
of a firm; whether the owner wants to sell next year or just
know how to build a valuable asset for the future.
“Bill and I have a complementary skill set for advising
firms on succession planning in the funeral space,” stated
Creedy. “Bill possesses the technical knowledge base to ex-
amine things from a legal and estate planning perspective
while I bring experience with interpersonal skills to analyze
and evaluate both the people and strategic dynamics.”
“We can provide our clients with an objective, profession-
al and unvarnished perspective on succession planning,”
commented McQueen. “Plus, Alan and I are unique-
ly qualified from an industry-specific standpoint. Not to
mention, I have experienced successful funeral home tran-
sitions from both sides of the table.”
Headquartered in Raleigh, NC,
Creedy & Company
is
a Business Advisory Service founded by Alan Creedy in
2008. His hands-on industry experience enables him to
quickly analyze core problems, develop/prioritize solu-
tions and implement strategies for quick turnaround. For
more information,
With offices in Florida and Arizona,
McQueen & Sid-
dall, LLP
is a personal and business legacy law firm.
The firm specializes in estate planning and administration,
asset protection, business entity formation and succession
For more in-
all rights to their parents
benefits i.e. military, so-
cial security, or estate in-
Coastal Paternity, LLC Educates Beaufort Funeral
Homes to Offer DNA Storage
BEAUFORT,SC—
The community funeral home may be the
last chance for many families to preserve their genetic histo-
ry. With certain advances in forensic science, DNA collect-
ed prior to embalming or cremation may be the family’s last
opportunity to authenticate genetic ancestry, settle paternity
issues, or document family medical history.
Coastal Paternity, LLC
co-owners
Denise Drake
RN
and
Olivia Bolin
have begun educating Beaufort funeral
homes, churches, and hospice providers to the importance
of discussing and documenting the conversation with family
members about DNA retrieval, paternity testing and storage
prior to embalming or cremation, stressing the cremation
process destroys all forms of DNA tissue permanently.
Soon DNA retrieval, storage and paternity testing will be
included in many funeral packages to families, along with tra-
ditional embalming, cremation, burial, and casket products.
This new service is being marketed as a way for families of the
deceased to authenticate their genetic ancestries, help predict
the risks of certain diseases, and often settle paternity cases.
More importantly, children of unmarried couples of-
ten labeled by society as being illegitimate, risk losing
heritance if unable to identify a biological link between
the alleged father and child prior to burial or cremation.
In order for a child to be acknowledged as a legal heir to
the estate or any assets of a deceased father, the father’s
name must be added to the child’s birth certificate now
or post-mortem.
Coastal Paternity, LLC has partnered with
DDC/NA
Diagnostic Center Laboratory.
This AABB accredited
facility provides testing for high profile celebrities, busi-
ness professionals, musicians, and athletes. DNA retriev-
al, banking and profiling services allow individuals and
families to store their loved ones DNA sample at a safe,
secure laboratory facility and obtain a record of their ge-
netic profile. The accredited laboratory guarantees that
each tissue sample is collected using the strict chain - of -
custody process, and provides the family with a banking
certificate stating the storage period (up to 15 years). The
laboratory will also safeguard the names of all person(s)
authorized to retrieve and/or use the DNA samples.
Funeral director and staff now have the implied responsibil-
ity to inform families of their options of DNA preservation