New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-8. Guardian to have no more than five wards; exceptions
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-8
- Federal agency: means any bureau, office, board, or officer of the United States by whatever name known, now or hereafter charged by Congress: (1) With payment of pensions, bounties, and allowances to veterans of the military service of the United States, their widows, widowers, children, mothers, and fathers. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
- 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.
- Guardian: means a person acting as fiduciary for a ward. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
- 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
- Ward: means a beneficiary of a Federal agency. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
3B:13-8. Except as provided in this section, no person shall accept appointment as guardian of a ward if acting as guardian for five wards.
In an action brought by an attorney of a Federal agency, establishing that a guardian is acting in a fiduciary capacity for more than five wards, the Superior Court shall require a final accounting forthwith from the guardian and shall discharge the guardian.
The limitation of this section shall not apply where the guardian is a bank or trust company or a public guardian of veterans who are incapacitated, and an individual may be guardian of more than five wards if they are all members of the same family.
amended 2013, c.103, s.28.