3B:3-27 - Recording of will of nonresident probated in another state or country - New Jersey Statutes

3B:3-27.  Recording of will of nonresident probated in another state or country
    A copy of any will or of the record of any will of a decedent not resident in this State at his death, admitted to probate in any state of the United States or other jurisdiction or country, and of the certificate or judgment for  probate, and if title to real estate of the decedent depends on the conveyance  by an executor, administrator with the will annexed, substituted administrator  with the will annexed, trustee or substituted trustee, of the record of the  grant of letters testamentary thereon, or of administration, or substitutionary  administration, with the will annexed, or of a copy of the letters, attested  and certified pursuant to the rules of the Supreme Court or, if it be a record  of any state of the United States, exemplified and authenticated according to  the act of Congress, heretofore or hereafter filed and recorded in the office  of the surrogate of any county in this State, shall have the same force and effect in respect to all real estate whereof the testator died seized, as if  the will had been admitted to probate and the letters aforesaid had been issued in this State, provided it appears either from the deposition in the record or  the attestation clause, or by a deposition taken under a commission or otherwise, that the will is valid under the laws of this State.

    All conveyances of the real estate heretofore or hereafter made by any executor, administrator with the will annexed, substituted administrator with the will annexed, trustee, substituted trustee, or the survivor or survivors of  them, or by any devisee or persons claiming under the devisee shall be as valid  as if the will had been admitted to probate and letters aforesaid had been  issued in this State.

    Certified copies of the will, deposition, judgment for probate and letters,  or of the record thereof, shall be received in evidence in all the courts of  this State.

     L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:3-27, eff. May 1, 1982.