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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-47

  • 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
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Every fiduciary, whether or not a resident within this State, who is granted letters testamentary or of administration, trusteeship or guardianship within this State shall, at the time of the grant, or before he undertakes to perform his duties, file a power of attorney with the surrogate of the county or clerk of the court granting the letters. The power of attorney shall be duly executed in writing, shall set forth the post office address, street and number, of the fiduciary and, by sufficient language, constitute the surrogate or clerk with whom it is filed, and his successors in office, his true and lawful attorney to receive process affecting the estate in charge of the fiduciary, or any interest therein, with the same force and effect as if the process were duly served on the fiduciary within this State.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:14-47, eff. May 1, 1982.