Codicil must be executed with the same formalities by which a will is executed and must refer to the will by date and ratify the will. Do not make alterations on the will itself or its validity may be destroyed. Your property, real and personal, is distributed according to the intestacy laws. The share of a surviving spouse depends upon what other of the decedent s heirs also survive. Surviving spouse receives entire estate.
Issue share the other half.
Surviving spouse and parents share the remaining estate 50-50. Further Distribution is Set Forth In The Statutes. Parents receive entire estate. Further distribution is set forth in the statutes, but if no issue of grandparents survive, the State of New Jersey receives entire estate. The closest living intestate heir of the decedent is entitled to be appointed administrator of the estate.