§ 3B:27-3 — Protection of personal representative or trustee making distribution

A personal representative or trustee who pays over or delivers a devise, distributive share or any interest in property held in trust, to which a person declared dead by virtue of this chapter would, if living, be entitled, or which is given to a person so declared dead, for life or otherwise, with a limitation over to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after the death of that person, shall be fully discharged from any and all liability to the person so declared dead, and to his personal representative and all persons claiming under him, upon filing with the surrogate of the proper county, or the clerk of the Superior Court as the case may be, the releases of the persons who would be entitled to the devise, share or interest if the person so declared to be dead were actually dead, together with their refunding bonds to the fiduciary. The bond shall be in the amount or value of the money or property so distributed, without sureties and upon the condition that the money or property so distributed will be refunded to the fiduciary in the event that the refunding should be required. Any person claiming the devise, share or interest may sue upon the bond as if it had been assigned to him. L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:27-3, eff. May 1, 1982.