Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:12-27

  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • 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
3B:12-27. Distribution of property of an incapacitated person as intestate property.

If an incapacitated person dies intestate or without any will except one which was executed after commencement of proceedings which ultimately resulted in adjudicating a person incapacitated and before a judgment has been entered adjudicating a return to competency, the person’s property shall descend and be distributed as in the case of intestacy.

Amended 2005, c.304, s.15.