The same thing happened to my grave. We bought a family plot of 4 graves and my mother was interred in the first lot. I went to visit her grave on Mother's Day a few years ago and found a new grave had been dug on my spot. It turned out that the same funeral director had burried my Mother and this young girl who had committed suicide. Of course her family was devastated by her loss. I had our funeral director solve the legals and logistics, and especially to deal with the other family. It turned out that the guy who kept the cemetery records had been on a week or so of vacation, and the local priest (church cemetery) misread the cemetery map and assigned my site to the other family thinking it was open for sale. It seems that each state has its own cemetery laws, so the solution we got may not apply in your case.
Specifics: The young girl had been cremated, which made a big difference according to law. Thus the laws which apply to a full internment do not apply, and the grave can be moved without any legal stuff happening. So the priest called the other family together and confessed his huge error. The priest, funeral director, her family, and the grave digger were present all at the same time to move her remains (in a small concrete box) to a nearby grave site. So the priest consecrated the new site, and all was done with total compassion, respect, and understanding. The funeral director sure earned his dollars on that one! (At no additional cost to either family).
I hope you can get a satisfactory solution which respects the dead and their family. But as you are not close to passing (I hope!), taking the more time consuming way to make it right is probably the best thing to do.
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