Erase In Legal New Jersey Abandoned Property Forms For Free

Filing your claim through the search website is the fastest way to get your claim processed. If you did not locate property on the NJ Property Search website but believe you have unclaimed property at our office, you can request UPA staff execute a manual search through the 'Request a Property Search' link below.

New Jersey property is generally presumed abandoned if it has remained unclaimed by the owner, or if there has been no activity other than automatic activity (interest posting on a bank account is considered automatic activity) for more than three years.

In New Jersey, a law called the Abandoned Tenant Property Statute requires landlords to give written notice to former tenants if the landlord wants to dispose of property left by the tenants after they have moved out. The notice must state that the landlord considers the property left behind abandoned.

Judgments for Possession and Warrants of Removal If the tenant does not leave the property, a special civil part court officer, not the landlord, will serve the tenant(s) with a warrant of removal. Residential tenants have three business days to leave the property after they are served with a warrant of removal.

Property is abandoned in ance with New Jersey law (i.e. State v. Johnson) where the owner knowingly and voluntarily relinquishes any possessory or ownership interest in the item and there is no other apparent or known owners of the property.

If a person finds their name or their business's name in the advertisements, running over the course of two weeks, they can go to the Unclaimed Property Administration's website to submit a claim and search for other unclaimed property in their name.