N.J. Stat. § 3B:13A-8: Designation of conservator

The court may appoint a person or a financial institution, qualified under the laws of this State to act as a fiduciary, as the conservator of the conservatee's estate. If the court appoints a conservator, it shall do so in the following order of priority:

a. A person or financial institution nominated or designated by the conservatee;

b. The conservatee's spouse;

c. One or more of the conservatee's adult children, or where there are none, the person or persons closest in degree of kinship to the conservatee; or

d. Some other proper person or financial institution as the court shall determine.

The court may, in its discretion, deviate from this order of priority if a potential conservator is unable or unwilling to serve or for some other good cause.

L.1983, c. 192, s. 1, eff. May 23, 1983.