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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:20-9

  • Estate: means all of the property of a decedent, minor or incapacitated individual, trust or other person whose affairs are subject to this title as the property is originally constituted and as it exists from time to time during administration. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Fiduciary: means an individual or corporation that is authorized to act as or acts as a trustee, personal representative, conservator, guardian, and every other individual or corporation charged with the duty of administering a trust estate. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:20-1
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Trust instrument: means and includes a will, deed, agreement, court order or other instrument pursuant to which money or other property is entrusted to a fiduciary. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:20-1
3B:20-9. Application to court upon change in conditions. If, as a result of a change in conditions which occurs or which may be reasonably foreseen, the objects of the trust estate may be defeated in whole or in part by the investment or retention of investments of the trust estate in property to which the fiduciary is limited by the trust instrument, the fiduciary or any beneficiary of the trust may apply to the court to secure authority permitting or directing the fiduciary to invest all or any part of the trust estate in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S. 3B:20-1 et seq.

Amended 1997, c.26, s.16.