New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-49. Submission to jurisdiction of courts
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:14-49
- 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
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- 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
A domiciliary foreign fiduciary submits himself personally to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State in any proceeding relating to the estate by:
a. Filing authenticated copies of his letters as provided in N.J.S. 3B:14-28;
b. Receiving payment of money or taking delivery of personal property under N.J.S. 3B:14-25, but jurisdiction hereunder is limited to the money or value of personal property received;
c. Doing any act as a fiduciary in this State which would have given the State jurisdiction over him as an individual.
L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:14-49, eff. May 1, 1982.