New Jersey Statutes 15A:12-19. Barring of claims of creditors
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 15A:12-19
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- 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
a. Any creditor as defined in subsection c. of section 15A:12-18 who does not file a claim as provided in the notice given pursuant to section 15A:12-18, and all those claiming through or under that creditor, shall be forever barred from suing on the claim or otherwise realizing upon or enforcing it except, in the case of a creditor who shows good cause for not having previously filed a claim, to the extent as the Superior Court may allow:
(1) Against the corporation to the extent of any undistributed assets; or
(2) If the undistributed assets are not sufficient to satisfy the claim, against a member or other person, corporation or corporate business entity to the extent of the distributee’s ratable part of the claim, out of the assets of the corporation distributed to the distributee in liquidation or dissolution.
b. This section shall not apply to claims which are in litigation on the date of the first publication of the notice pursuant to section 15A:12-18
L.1983, c. 127, s. 15A:12-19, eff. Oct. 1, 1983.