Civil Court Rules and Jury Charges

Kenneth Vercammen & Associates, P.C.
2053 Woodbridge Avenue - Edison, NJ 08817

Thursday, August 27, 2009

4:86-7. Regaining Mental Capacity

On the commencement of a separate summary action by the incapacitated person or an interested person on his or her behalf, supported by affidavit and setting forth facts evidencing that the previously incapacitated person no longer is incapacitated or has returned to partial capacity, the court shall, on notice to the persons who would be set forth in a complaint filed pursuant to Rule 4:86-1, set a date for hearing, take oral testimony in open court with or without a jury, and may render judgment that the person no longer is fully or partially incapacitated, that his or her guardianship be modified or discharged subject to the duty to account, and that his or her person and estate be restored to his or her control, or render judgment that the guardianship be modified but not terminated.