New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-3. Powers and duties of substituted fiduciary
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-3
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Estate: means all of the property of a decedent, minor or incapacitated individual, trust or other person whose affairs are subject to this title as the property is originally constituted and as it exists from time to time during administration. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
- 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
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
A substituted fiduciary may demand, receive and recover the property and assets of the estate, and maintain all proper actions for the recovery thereof, and do all acts necessary for the administration and settlement of the estate and execution of the powers and performance of the trusts contained in the will or other instrument, in the same manner and to the same effect as if he had been appointed or named in the first instance. The fiduciary shall in the same manner be liable for any neglect or failure to perform the duties of his appointment.
L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:14-3, eff. May 1, 1982.