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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:24-3

  • 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
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Where a trust is created, or other provision made in any nontestamentary instrument whereby any person is given an interest in income, or an estate for years, or for life, or other temporary interest in any property or fund, the tax apportionable against both the temporary interest and the remainder thereafter shall, in the absence of directions to the contrary in the instrument, be charged against and paid out of the corpus of the property or fund without apportionment between remainders and temporary estates. The provisions of this section shall apply notwithstanding that the holder of the temporary interest is given rights to the corpus.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:24-3, eff. May 1, 1982.