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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:17-7

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes executors, general administrators of an intestate estate, administrators with the will annexed, substituted administrators, substituted administrators with the will annexed, guardians, substituted guardians, trustees, substituted trustees and, unless restricted by the subject or context, temporary administrators, administrators pendente lite, administrators ad prosequendum, administrators ad litem and other limited fiduciaries. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
When, in an account, or in a complaint in an action for the settlement of an account, or in any writing annexed to the complaint or account, there appear lists of or statements or information as to the investments or other assets in a fiduciary‘s hands at the close of, or during, the period covered by the account or as to changes made in investments or other assets during that period, or there appear allegations or information as to other matters done or omitted by the fiduciary during the period, the complaint and the writing, statements, lists, information and allegations shall be deemed to be part of the account.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:17-7, eff. May 1, 1982.