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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 October 3, 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

Read on the enacting state’s own site, with the date each was read.

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

What New Jersey courts publish

Every link is probed before each release.

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 the267 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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