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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-19

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes executors, general administrators of an intestate estate, administrators with the will annexed, substituted administrators, substituted administrators with the will annexed, guardians, substituted guardians, trustees, substituted trustees and, unless restricted by the subject or context, temporary administrators, administrators pendente lite, administrators ad prosequendum, administrators ad litem and other limited fiduciaries. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Where a fiduciary is appointed by a will to perform a particular trust thereunder, he may be discharged from the performance thereof by the court.

The court may grant the discharge and the fiduciary shall be relieved of all further duties and liabilities with respect to the trust, except accounting for and paying over to his successor all moneys or assets pertaining to the trust, for which he is accountable.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:14-19, eff. May 1, 1982.