STATE STATUTES & CODES

NEW JERSEY STATUTES AND CODES

Section 3B:3

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