REPORTING DEATHS OF UNITED STATES NATIONALS

• § 72.1 - Definitions.

• § 72.2 - Consular responsibility.

• § 72.3 - Exceptions.

• § 72.4 - Notifications of death.

• § 72.5 - Final report of death.

• § 72.6 - Report of presumptive death.

DISPOSITION OF REMAINS

• § 72.7 - Consular responsibility.

PERSONAL ESTATES OF DECEASED UNITED STATES CITIZENS AND NATIONALS

• § 72.8 - Regulatory responsibility of consular officer.

• § 72.9 - Responsibility if legal representative is present.

• § 72.10 - Responsibility if a will intended to operate locally exists.

• § 72.11 - Responsibility if a will intended to operate in the United States exists.

• § 72.12 - Bank deposits in foreign countries.

• § 72.13 - Effects to be taken into physical possession.

• § 72.14 - Nominal possession; property not normally taken into physical possession.

• § 72.15 - Action when possession is impractical.

• § 72.16 - Procedure for inventorying and appraising effects.

• § 72.17 - Final statement of account.

• § 72.18 - Payment of debts owed by decedent.

• § 72.19 - Consular officer is ordinarily not to act as administrator of estate.

• § 72.20 - Prohibition against performing legal services or employing counsel.

• § 72.21 - Consular officer may not assume financial responsibility for the estate.

• § 72.22 - Release of personal estate to legal representative.

• § 72.23 - Affidavit of next of kin.

• § 72.24 - Conflicting claims.

• § 72.25 - Transfer of personal estate to Department of State.

• § 72.26 - Vesting of personal estate in United States.

• § 72.27 - Export of cultural property; handling other property when export, possession, or import may be illegal.

• § 72.28 - Claims for lost, stolen, or destroyed personal estate.

REAL PROPERTY OVERSEAS BELONGING TO A DECREASED UNITED STATES CITIZEN OR NATIONAL

• § 72.29 - Real property overseas belonging to deceased United States citizen or national.

• § 72.30 - Provisions in a will or advanced directive regarding disposition of remains.

FEES

• § 72.31 - Fees for consular death and estates services.