Income Statement (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2012	Mar. 31, 2011
Revenues:
Insurance premiums and other considerations	$ 12,587,788	$ 12,692,303
Net investment income	6,054,047	4,270,448
Net mortuary and cemetery sales	2,874,949	2,941,993
Realized gains on investments and other assets	171,060	345,090
Other than temporary impairments on investments	(45,000)	(35,129)
Mortgage fee income	25,490,584	13,452,591
Other income	189,795	504,884
Total revenues	47,323,223	34,172,180
Benefits and expenses:
Death benefits	5,186,299	6,148,663
Surrenders and other policy benefits	838,740	734,592
Increase in future policy benefits	5,637,949	4,104,539
Amortization of deferred policy and pre-need acquisition costs and value of business acquired	1,924,427	2,000,217
Commissions	14,885,790	7,860,633
Salaries	6,512,843	6,184,787
Provision for loan losses and loss reserve	402,474	691,794
Costs related to funding mortgage loans	1,360,304	844,505
Other expenses	6,998,890	6,077,871
Interest expense	768,744	315,542
Cost of goods and services sold-mortuaries and cemeteries	478,171	531,619
Total benefits and expenses	44,994,631	35,494,762
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	2,328,592	(1,322,582)
Income tax (provision) benefit	(666,409)	804,109
Net earnings (loss)	$ 1,662,183	$ (518,473)
Net earnings (loss) per Class A Equivalent common share (1)	$ 0.18	$ (0.06)
Net earnings (loss) per Class A Equivalent common share-assuming dilution (1)	$ 0.17	$ (0.06)
Weighted-average Class A equivalent common share outstanding (1)	9,495,878	9,317,297
Weighted-average Class A equivalent common shares outstanding-assuming dilution (1)	9,586,830	9,317,297