Section 2A:56-44 - Disposition of proceeds of sale of real estate held in trust

NJ Rev Stat § 2A:56-44 (2019) (N/A)
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2A:56-44. Disposition of proceeds of sale of real estate held in trust

When sale of real estate limited over is ordered in any partition proceedings in the superior court, and an executor, trustee or administrator with the will annexed, appointed by will or by order of any court, has authority, by the terms of the will, to collect and receive the rents, issues and profits of all or any part of such real estate during the life or lives of any person or persons named in the will, but has no power to sell the real estate or an interest therein, the superior court may, upon such fiduciary furnishing bond to the superior court and filing it in the office of the clerk of the court wherein the will was probated or wherein he received his appointment and in the same manner in which bond is required to be filed upon grant of letters of administration, order that the proceeds of sale representing the real estate, or interest therein, whereof the fiduciary was entitled to collect and receive the rents, issues and profits, be paid over to such fiduciary to be by him held and invested according to law concerning other trust funds and the income thereof to be by him paid and applied to the persons entitled to the rents and profits of the real estate represented thereby; and upon the death of the persons so entitled to the income, the principal sum shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto under the provisions of the will.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.