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New Jersey Estate Planning

If you’re making an estate plan in New Jersey, start here. Learn how to make a will, trust, and power of attorney (POA) that are valid in your state, or get more information about estate planning and funeral laws specific to New Jersey.

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A will can help you protect your family and your property in New Jersey.

Learn how to make a living trust in New Jersey.

If you die without a will in New Jersey, your assets will go to your closest relatives under state “intestate succession” laws.

Learn the rules about who can be your executor in New Jersey.  

Close family members are exempt from New Jersey inheritance tax, but other inheritors might have to pay.

A durable POA allows someone to help you with your financial matters if you ever become incapacitated—here's how to make one in New Jersey.

The basics of wrapping up an estate in New Jersey.

New Jersey offers a probate shortcut for "small estates." This makes it easier for survivors to transfer property left by a person who has died.

How to save your family time, money, and hassle by using probate-avoidance tools available in New Jersey.

New Jersey’s death with dignity law allows terminally ill patients to request aid in dying under certain conditions.

Find out how to get a death certificate and where you can bury a body or scatter ashes in New Jersey.

Learn the rules that govern home funerals in New Jersey.

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