Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:8A-13

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
An individual receiving over half of his support for the eligibility year from persons who would be entitled to claim him as a dependent except that no one of them contributed over half of such support, may be claimed as a dependent by any one of such persons who contributed over 10% of such support, provided that all other such persons execute written declaration, to be filed with the return of the person making the claim, not to claim the same dependent for the eligibility year of each of them.

L.1961, c. 32, p. 131, s. 13, eff. May 29, 1961.

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