Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 38A:3-2b2

  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • 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
1. There is established in the Division of Veterans’ Administrative Services in the Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs a program to assist an eligible family member of a veteran who is already in a New Jersey veterans’ memorial home or an eligible family member of a veteran who is about to enter such a home in being appointed as guardian of the veteran. In the event that a family member of a veteran who is already in a New Jersey veterans’ memorial home or is about to enter such a home is not willing or available to serve as guardian of that veteran, some other interested person closely associated with the veteran shall be eligible for assistance in being appointed as guardian under the program herein established. The assistance provided to a family member of a veteran or to some other interested and eligible person associated with a veteran shall be in the form of both technical and financial support.

L.1993,c.281,s.1.

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