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This affordable, practice-enhancing single volume provides targeted, authoritative coverage of estate law in New Jersey.
LexisNexis’ team of attorney-editors have carefully culled from the New Jersey Annotated Statutes relevant portions from sections including Administration of Estates, Administration of Estates—Decedents and Others, Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice, Court Organization and Civil Code, Fees and Costs, Property, and Taxation, as well as applicable Court Rules.
In addition to these carefully selected statutory materials, the volume includes a collection of practical analytical content, making it a powerful, portable tool with which practitioners can jump-start their research.
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Table of contents
2019 Legislative and Rule Changes
2020 Legislative and Rule Changes
Assembly, No. 3903
NOTICE TO THE BAR: Guardianships of Adult Incapacitated Persons - Supreme Court Relaxation of Rule 4:86 During Covid-19 Crisis
Analytical Materials
Chapter 1. Title 3A, Administration of Estates
A1 Assimilation and Management of Information
A2 Surrogate’s Court Information Sheets
A3 Selected Cases
Chapter 2. Title 3B, Administration of Estates – Decedents and Others
A4 Disclaimers and Election by Surviving Spouse
A5 Selected Cases
Chapter 3. Title 2A, Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice
A6 Selected Cases
Chapter 4. Title 2B, Court Organization and Civil Code
A7 List of New Jersey Surrogate’s Offices
A8 Selected Administrative Decision
Chapter 5. Title 22A, Fees and Costs
A9 Selected Cases
Chapter 6. Title 46, Property
A10 Non-Probate Assets
Chapter 7. Title 54, Taxation
A11 New Jersey Death Taxes
A12 New Jersey Fiduciary Income Tax Forms
Chapter 8. Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey, Part IV. Rules Governing Civil Practice in the Superior Court, Tax Court and Surrogate’s Courts
A13 Compensation of Personal Representatives and Attorneys
A14 Selected Cases
A15 New Jersey Becomes the 41st State to Authorize Remote Online Notarizations (Temporarily At Least)
NEW JERSEY ANNOTATED STATUTES
TITLE 3A. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
§§3A:2A-41 to 3A:37-6
TITLE 3B. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES—DECEDENTS AND OTHERS
Chapter 1. Definitions and General Provisions, §§3B:1-1 to 3B:1-9
Chapter 2. Superior and Surrogate’s Courts; General Jurisdiction, §§3B:2-1 to 3B:2-8
Chapter 3. Wills, §§3B:3-1 to 3B:3-49
Chapter 4. Trusts; Testamentary Additions, §§3B:4-1 to 3B:4-6
Chapter 5. Intestacy, §§3B:5-1 to 3B:5-16
Chapter 6. Uniform Simultaneous Death Law, §§3B:6-1 to 3B:6-7
Chapter 7. Decedent’s Intentional Death; Effect, §§3B:7-1 to 3B:7-7
Chapter 8. Right to Elective Share by Surviving Spouse, §§3B:81 to 3B:8-19
Chapter 9. Disclaimers of Transfers by Will; Under Powers of Testamentary Appointment or by Intestate Succession, §§3B:9-1 to 3B:9-14
Chapter 10. Personal Representatives, §§3B:10-1 to 3B:10-32
Chapter 11. Trusts and Trustees, §§3B:11-1 to 3B:11-38
Chapter 12. Minors and Incapacitated Persons, §§3B:12-1 to 3B:12-78
Chapter 12A. Kinship Legal Guardianship, §§3B:12A-1 to 3B:12A-7
Chapter 12B. New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, §§3B:12B-1 to 3B:12B-22
Chapter 13. Guardianship of Veterans, §§3B:13-1 to 3B:13-31
Chapter 13A. Conservators, §§3B:13A-1 to 3B:13A-36
Chapter 14. Fiduciaries, §§3B:14-1 to 3B:14-65
Chapter 15. Bonds and Sureties, §§3B:15-1. to 3B:15-33
Chapter 16. Inventories, §§3B:16-1 to 3B:16-8
Chapter 17. Accounting, §§3B:17-1 to 3B:17-13
Chapter 18. Commissions, §§3B:18-1 to 3B:18-33
Chapter 19. Principal and Income [Repealed], §§3B:19-1 to 3B:19-19
Chapter 19A. Principal and Income [Repealed], §§3B:19A-1 to 3B:19A-35
Chapter 19B. Uniform Principal and Income Act, §§3B:19B-1 to 3B:19B-31
Chapter 20. Investments, §§3B:20-1 to 3B:20-35
Chapter 21. Transfer of Property Out of State, §§3B:21-1 to 3B:21-5
Chapter 22. Rights and Remedies of Creditors of Decedents, §§3B:22-1 to 3B:22-44
Chapter 23. Distributive Shares and Devises, §§3B:23-1 to 3B:23-43
Chapter 24. Apportionment of New Jersey Estate and Federal Taxes, §§3B:24-1 to 3B:24-8
Chapter 25. Exoneration of Property Subject to Mortgage or Security Interest, §3B:25-1
Chapter 26. Absentees, §§3B:26-1 to 3B:26-4
Chapter 27. Absence for Five Years, §§3B:27-1 to 3B:27-6
Chapter 28. Dower and Curtesy, §§3B:28-1 to 3B:28-19
Chapter 29. Repealer, §3B:29-1
Chapter 30. Uniform Transfer on Death Security Registration Act, §§3B:30-1 to 3B:30-12
Chapter 31. Uniform Trust Code, §§3B:31-1 to 3B:31-84
TITLE 2A. ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Subtitle 4. Civil Actions
Chapter 16. Judgments, §§2A:16-27 to 2A:16-32
Chapter 17. Executions, §2A:17-71
Subtitle 6. Specific Civil Actions
Chapter 22. Adoption of Adult, §2A:22-3
Chapter 50. Foreclosure, §2A:50-34
Chapter 56. Partition, §§2A:56-1 to 2A:56-44
Chapter 65. Waste, §§2A:65-1 to 2A:65-3, 2A:65-8 to 2A:65-10
TITLE 2B. COURT ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL CODE
Chapter 14. Surrogates, §§2B:14-1 to 2B:14-14
TITLE 22A. FEES AND COSTS
Chapter 2. Civil Causes, §§22A:2-15, 22A:2-16, 22A:2-30 to 22A:2-37
TITLE 46. PROPERTY
Subtitle 1. Explosives Generally
Chapter 2A. Powers of Appointment, §§46:2A-1 to 46:2A-5
Chapter 2B. Powers of Attorney, §§46:2B-1 to 46:2B-19
Chapter 2C. Trust Deeds, §§46:2C-1 to 46:2C-7
Chapter 2D. Mortgages [Repealed], §46:2D-1
Chapter 2E. Intervivos Transfers; Disclaimer, §§46:2E-1 to 46:2E-14
Chapter 2F. Rule Against Perpetuities, §§46:2F-1 to 46:2F-11
TITLE 54. TAXATION
Subtitle 5. Transfer Inheritance and Estate Taxes
Part 1. Transfer Inheritance Tax
Chapter 33. General Provisions, §§54:33-1 to 54:33-14
Chapter 34. Assessment of Tax, §§54:34-1 to 54:34-13
Chapter 35. Collection and Enforcement of Tax; Refunds, §§54:35-1 to 54:35-23
Chapter 36. Assessment, Collection and Enforcement of Taxes on Estates Subject to Future Interests, §§54:36-1 to 54:36-7
Chapter 37. Death Taxes Due to Other States, §§54:37-1 to 54:37-8
Part 2. Estate Tax
Chapter 38. Imposition and Collection of Tax, §§54:38-1 to 54:38-16
Part 3. Inheritance and Estate Taxes
Chapter 38A. Compromises, §§54:38A-1 to 54:38A-6
RULES GOVERNING THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PART IV. RULES GOVERNING CIVIL PRACTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, TAX COURT AND SURROGATE’S COURTS
Chapter IX. Probate Matters, Rules 4:80 to 4:96
Index