3B:13A-8 - Designation of conservator - New Jersey Statutes

3B:13A-8.  Designation of conservator
    The court may appoint a person or a financial institution, qualified under the laws of this State to act as a fiduciary, as the conservator of the conservatee's estate.  If the court appoints a conservator, it shall do so in the following order of priority:

    a.  A person or financial institution nominated or designated by the conservatee;

    b.  The conservatee's spouse;

     c.  One or more of the conservatee's adult children, or where there are none, the person or persons closest in degree of kinship to the conservatee; or

    d.  Some other proper person or financial institution as the court shall determine.

    The court may, in its discretion, deviate from this order of priority if a potential conservator is unable or unwilling to serve or for some other good cause.

     L.1983, c. 192, s. 1, eff. May 23, 1983.