Kenneth Vercammen is a Middlesex County Trial Attorney who has published 130 articles in national and New Jersey publications on Criminal Law, Probate, Estate and litigation topics.

He was awarded the NJ State State Bar Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year.

He lectures and handles criminal cases, Municipal Court, DWI, traffic and other litigation matters.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Uniform Probate Code 1-101

 

Uniform Probate Code 1-101

ARTICLE I 

GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT 

PART 1. SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 

1-101. SHORT TITLE. This [act] shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Probate Code.

SECTION 1-102. PURPOSES; RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 

(a) This [code] shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies. 

(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this [code] are:
(1) to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing 

persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons;
(2) to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of his 

property; 

(3) to promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to his successors; 

(4) to facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; 

(5) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.


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