A New Martinsville funeral home has been ordered to stop selling preneed or prepaid funeral contracts.

Last week a judge ordered the Iams Funeral Home and John L. Iams to refrain from selling or servicing what they call preneed or prepaid funeral contracts.

This order makes permanent a ruling from November after the West Virginia Attorney General’s office claimed Iams misused money from those prepaid funeral contracts.

The judge also ruled the funeral home transfer all open contracts and reimburse the money customers have already paid.