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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 3B - ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES--DECEDENTS AND OTHERS
Chapter 3 - Individuals competent to make a will and appoint a testamentary guardian.
- Section 3b:3-1 - Individuals competent to make a will and appoint a testamentary guardian.
- Section 3b:3-2 - Execution; witnessed wills; writings intended as wills.
- Section 3b:3-2.1 - Creation, maintenance of will registry; fees.
- Section 3b:3-2.2 - Regulations.
- Section 3b:3-3 - Writings intended as wills.
- Section 3b:3-4 - Making will self-proved at time of execution.
- Section 3b:3-5 - Making will self-proved subsequent to time of execution.
- Section 3b:3-6 - Validating acknowledgment
- Section 3b:3-7 - Who may witness a will.
- Section 3b:3-8 - Will not invalidated if signed by interested witness
- Section 3b:3-9 - Laws determining valid execution of will
- Section 3b:3-10 - Incorporation by reference
- Section 3b:3-11 - Identifying devise of tangible personal property by separate writing.
- Section 3b:3-12 - Acts and events of independent significance.
- Section 3b:3-13 - Revocation by writing or by act.
- Section 3b:3-14 - Revocation of probate and non-probate transfers by divorce or annulment; revival by remarriage to former spouse.
- Section 3b:3-15 - Revival of revoked will.
- Section 3b:3-16 - Methods of altering will
- Section 3b:3-17 - Probate of will and grant of letters.
- Section 3b:3-18 - Necessity to probate will to transfer property or nominate executor
- Section 3b:3-19 - Proof required to probate will.
- Section 3b:3-20 - Probate of a will of testator who died in military service or within 2 years of discharge.
- Section 3b:3-21 - Probate of will where witnesses are in service in time of war
- Section 3b:3-22 - Time for probate of will; preliminary filing
- Section 3b:3-23 - Proof of execution required in contested probate action
- Section 3b:3-24 - Where a will of a resident is to be probated; effect of failure to probate.
- Section 3b:3-25 - Filing probate record with surrogate of any county
- Section 3b:3-26 - Probate of will of nonresident probated in another state or country.
- Section 3b:3-27 - Recording of will of nonresident probated in another state or country
- Section 3b:3-28 - Probate of will of nonresident decedent where property situated in New Jersey.
- Section 3b:3-28.1 - Probate of will of nonresident where laws of decedent's domicile are discriminatory.
- Section 3b:3-29 - Order to compel production of purported will
- Section 3b:3-30 - Allowances by Superior Court to spouse or children pending contest over probate of will
- Section 3b:3-31 - Judgment for probate; conclusive effect on title to real property after 7 years.
- Section 3b:3-32 - Requirement of survival by 120 hours; exceptions; survivorship with respect to future interests.
- Section 3b:3-33 - Choice of law as to meaning and effect of wills; testator's intention; rules of construction.
- Section 3b:3-33.1 - Testator's intention; settlor's intention; rules of construction applicable to wills, trusts and other governing instruments.
- Section 3b:3-34 - Will construed to pass all property of testator including after-acquired property.
- Section 3b:3-35 - Anti-lapse; deceased devisee; class gifts.
- Section 3b:3-36 - Failure of testamentary provision; residuary devise to two or more residuary devisees; death of one or more before testator.
- Section 3b:3-37 - Residuary devise to two or more residuary devisees; death of one or more before testator
- Section 3b:3-38 - Construction of words "die without issue" or "die without descendants".
- Section 3b:3-39 - Construction when "heirs and assigns" omitted from devise; fee passed
- Section 3b:3-40 - Words importing estate in fee not to prevent further devise
- Section 3b:3-41 - Issue and descendants to take by representation.
- Section 3b:3-42 - Increase in securities, accessions.
- Section 3b:3-43 - Nonademption of specific devise; sale by or payment of condemnation award or insurance proceeds to guardian of testator or agent.
- Section 3b:3-44 - Specific devise; right of devisee after sale, condemnation, casualty loss or foreclosure.
- Section 3b:3-45 - Exercise of power of appointment
- Section 3b:3-46 - Ademption by satisfaction.
- Section 3b:3-47 - Penalty clause for contesting will
- Section 3b:3-48 - Construction of generic terms included in class gift terminology.
- Section 3b:3-49 - Effect of final order of court of another state admitting will to probate or determining validity or construction
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