Category: Estate Administration
NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT TAKES A SURPRISING APPROACH TO ADDRESS A DECEDENT’S LACK OF ATTENTION TO DETAIL AFTER GETTING DIVORCED
In a recent New Jersey Supreme Court case, Matter of Estate of Jones, 25 N.J. 584 (2025), a unanimous court found that a decedent’ s ex-wife was entitled to retain United States savings bonds that the decedent owned and that designated her as the beneficiary, notwithstanding the fact that the…