New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division February 6, 2012 (In re the Estate of Peck)

GANNON, J.S.C.

This case requires that the court examine the impact of the elective share statute, N.J.S.A. 3B:8-1 to -19, on the actual intent of the decedent expressed in a foreign will disposing of her assets in Thailand, prior to the execution of a Last Will and Testament in New Jersey on July 11, 2011.

This matter arises on plaintiff, Robert M.