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Every source behind the New Jersey guide

3 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 14 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch September 15, 2026

What each source establishes

The New Jersey guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

P.L.2015, c.232; N.J.S.A. 3B:10-3 and 3B:10-4

New Jersey Legislature · Approved January 19, 2016. · Verified August 9, 2026

Where the total value of the real and personal assets of the estate of an intestate will not exceed $50,000, the surviving spouse, partner in a civil union, or domestic partner upon the execution of an affidavit before the Surrogate of the county where the intestate resided at his death, or, if then nonresident in this State, where any of the assets are located, or before the Superior Court, shall be entitled absolutely to all the real and personal assets without administration, and the assets of the estate up to $10,000 shall be free from all debts of the intestate.

What was published from this source

  • NJ P.L.2015, c.232; N.J.S.A. 3B:10-3 and 3B:10-4

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • spouse threshold and scope
  • no-spouse threshold
  • section identity
  • effective-date signal
  • section identity

Response digest fcedbc448b03eb15… · HTTP 200

Executor compensation rule

P.L.2000, c.29; N.J.S.A. 3B:18-14

New Jersey Legislature · Approved June 16, 2000. · Verified August 9, 2026

Commissions on all corpus received by the fiduciary may be taken as follows: 5% on the first $200,000 of all corpus received by the fiduciary; 3.5% on the excess over $200,000 up to $1,000,000; 2% on the excess over $1,000,000; and 1% of all corpus for each additional fiduciary provided that no one fiduciary shall be entitled to any greater commission than that which would be allowed if there were but one fiduciary involved.

What was published from this source

  • NJ P.L.2000, c.29; N.J.S.A. 3B:18-14

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • corpus commission tiers
  • additional fiduciary
  • section identity
  • enactment signal
  • section identity

Response digest 341a77fe1ceff245… · HTTP 200

Creditor deadline rule

P.L.2004, c.132, §84; N.J.S.A. 3B:22-4

New Jersey Legislature · Approved August 31, 2004. · Verified August 9, 2026

Creditors of the decedent shall present their claims to the personal representative of the decedent's estate in writing and under oath, specifying the amount claimed and the particulars of the claim, within nine months from the date of the decedent's death.

What was published from this source

  • NJ P.L.2004, c.132, §84; N.J.S.A. 3B:22-4

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • death-trigger claim period
  • section identity
  • enactment signal
  • section identity

Response digest 89ca7a55252e6f33… · HTTP 200

Statutes read in full for New Jersey

These are the New Jersey provisions read end to end on the enacting state’s own site, rather than summarised from a secondary source. The middle column is what reading each one actually established for New Jersey — not a restatement of the topic — and the last column records the date the wording was read, so a later amendment can be spotted by comparing dates.

CitationWhat reading it establishedRead on
N.J.S. 3B:18-14New Jersey is one of the few states that prints the commission rates — representative pay note2026-09-17
N.J.S. 3B:22-4New Jersey runs nine months from death, not from a published notice — creditor deadline note2026-09-17
N.J.S. 22A:2-30The New Jersey surrogate charges by the page, and the schedule is statutory — court and filing cost note2026-09-17

New Jersey source decision map

How the New Jersey records fit together

The source record is most useful when each citation has a job. This map links the New Jersey procedure, cost, compensation, and deadline records to the decision each one can and cannot answer.

QuestionRecorded New Jersey answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Affidavit for assets without administration (intestate estate)Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?probate property within the rule's stated scope; gross value for this route.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$20,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?No waiting-period number verified; Verified: written sworn claims are to be presented within nine months from death. This is a death-trigger presentation/protection rule, not a publication or appointment deadline, and the act protects distributions made before late presentation rather than stating a simple extinction rule. No separate publication-trigger, actual-notice-trigger, or appointment-trigger deadline was verified.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?No single statewide amount is published here; confirm the receiving court's current schedule.Ask the Surrogate's Court / Superior Court Chancery Division, Probate Part about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?N.J.S.A. 3B:18-14 permits 5% of the first $200,000 of corpus received, 3.5% of the excess through $1 million, and 2% above $1 million. Each additional fiduciary receives 1% subject to the statutory cap, and a court may reduce materially excessive commissions. The separate income commission under 3B:18-13 remains UNKNOWN because no current official machine-fetchable text was obtained. The relevant base is gross probate property.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Decision boundary

What the New Jersey source set does not silently decide

The New Jersey records establish the rules listed above, but they do not turn a source citation into advice about title, family priority, tax filing, contested proceedings, or the exact clerk practice in every county. Those questions stay with the official court or a qualified adviser. The useful next step is to match the question to the citation rather than treating the longest quote as the answer to every estate problem.

Arithmetic illustration

See the New Jersey amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded New Jersey ceiling is $20,000, and it is tested against probate property within the rule's stated scope, on a basis this site records as gross value for this route. Counted that way, $15,000 sits below the New Jersey figure and $25,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what New Jersey counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the New Jersey ceilingWhat it does not decide
$15,000Below $20,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$25,000Above $20,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Open the quoted record for the row you rely on and check the publisher's current text before filing.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

No machine-fetchable statewide Surrogate directory or statewide small-estate form was found. NJ Courts returned HTTP 403 on every tested path, so the dossier supplies an HTTP-200 official county Surrogate entry point and instructs the user to select the county of venue.

Probate is filed with the Surrogate of the county where the decedent lived, and each Surrogate sets its own filing charges, so the statewide directory is the starting point rather than a single county page.

Source trail

Records used by this New Jersey map

What New Jersey courts publish

The statutes on this page state the rule. These are the documents the court itself publishes. Every link is probed before release, and any link that stops resolving fails the build rather than staying on the page.

Limits on court material

  • No machine-fetchable statewide Surrogate directory or statewide small-estate form was found. NJ Courts returned HTTP 403 on every tested path, so the dossier supplies an HTTP-200 official county Surrogate entry point and instructs the user to select the county of venue.
  • Probate is filed with the Surrogate of the county where the decedent lived, and each Surrogate sets its own filing charges, so the statewide directory is the starting point rather than a single county page.
  • New Jersey Courts serves its deeper probate and Surrogate pages only to interactive browsers, so this site links the self-help centre and leaves the reader to navigate from there rather than publishing a link it cannot prove reachable.
  • The New Jersey Legislature's Chapter Laws page (https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/chapter-laws) is the official enacted-law entry point, not a court self-help or forms directory, so it is described here rather than listed as a court resource; the court-owned material is the NJ Courts self-help centre linked above.

Checking these New Jersey records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the254 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for New Jersey. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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