§ 3B:13-1 Short title
§ 3B:13-2 Definitions
§ 3B:13-3 General rules of construction
§ 3B:13-4 Fees and costs
§ 3B:13-5 No charges to be made for copies of certain records
§ 3B:13-6 Determination of incapacity by Superior Court
§ 3B:13-7 Guardians; when and how appointed
§ 3B:13-8 Guardian to have no more than five wards; exceptions
§ 3B:13-9 Filing account with the court
§ 3B:13-10 Filing account with Federal agency
§ 3B:13-11 Times for accounting
§ 3B:13-12 Notice to Federal agency
§ 3B:13-13 Accounting without filing vouchers
§ 3B:13-14 Removal of guardian for failure to account; costs
§ 3B:13-15 Investments
§ 3B:13-16 Support of dependents
§ 3B:13-17 Compensation of guardian
§ 3B:13-18 Authorization for guardian of incapacitated ward to receive additional personal property not exceeding $10,000
§ 3B:13-19 Direction of court for expenditure required; investment
§ 3B:13-20 Fees
§ 3B:13-21 “Public guardian of veterans who are incapacitated.”
§ 3B:13-22 Guardian’s bond
§ 3B:13-23 Salary of public guardian
§ 3B:13-24 Duties of public guardian as adviser of other guardians
§ 3B:13-25 Discharge and removal of public guardian
§ 3B:13-26 Public guardian may be appointed general guardian for veteran
§ 3B:13-27 Powers of public guardian as guardian of veterans’ estates
§ 3B:13-28 Settlement of accounts
§ 3B:13-29 Termination of guardianship; settlement of account
§ 3B:13-30 Settlement of accounts upon expiration of public guardian’s term
§ 3B:13-31 Counsel to represent public guardian; compensation
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes > Title 3B > Chapter 13 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Law

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Benefits: means moneys payable by the United States to the aforesaid persons or their guardians through a Federal agency. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
  • Chief officer: means an officer of a Federal agency, charged by the laws of the United States with the particular duty in connection with which the term is used. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
  • 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
  • Federal agency: means any bureau, office, board, or officer of the United States by whatever name known, now or hereafter charged by Congress: (1) With payment of pensions, bounties, and allowances to veterans of the military service of the United States, their widows, widowers, children, mothers, and fathers. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
  • 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 acting as fiduciary for a ward. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
  • Heirs: means those persons, including, but not limited to, the surviving spouse, the domestic partner and the descendants of the decedent, who are entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • income: include only moneys received by the guardian from a Federal agency and earnings, interest, and profits derived therefrom. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2
  • 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.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Ward: means a beneficiary of a Federal agency. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:13-2