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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:21-1

  • 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 who has qualified as a guardian of the person or estate of a minor or incapacitated individual pursuant to testamentary or court appointment, but excludes one who is merely a guardian ad litem. 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.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
When a ward or a cestui que trust, or all the cestuis que trustent in esse, is or, all of them, are nonresidents of this State and is or are entitled to personal or real property in this State and the guardian or trustee received his letters from, or is subject to the jurisdiction of, a court of another state or country, the Superior Court may authorize the guardian or trustee, if it is in the interest of the persons in interest, to demand, collect, sue for, receive and remove from this State all or any part of the personal property and the rents, issues and profits of the real property, or authorize the personal property, and the rents, issues and profits of the real property to be transferred to the custody of the proper court of that state, jurisdiction or country.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:21-1, eff. May 1, 1982.