New Jersey Statutes 3B:5-10. Establishment of Parent-Child Relationship
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:5-10
- Child: means any individual, including a natural or adopted child, entitled to take by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved and excludes any individual who is only a stepchild, a resource family child, a grandchild or any more remote descendant. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
- Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
- 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
3B:5-10. If, for the purposes of intestate succession, a relationship of parent and child must be established to determine succession by, through, or from an individual, in cases not covered by N.J.S.3B:5-9, an individual is the child of the individual’s parents regardless of the marital state of the individual’s parents, and the parent and child relationship may be established as provided by the “New Jersey Parentage Act,” P.L.1983, c.17 (C. 9:17-38 et seq.). The parent and child relationship may be established for purposes of this section regardless of the time limitations set forth in subsection b. of section 8 of P.L.1983, c.17 (C. 9:17-45).
Amended 1991, c.22; 1997, c.376, s.1; 2004, c.132, s.52.