New Jersey § 3a:6-10

§ 3a:6-10.

If an executor or administrator of a nonresident decedent fails to apply in this state

for letters testamentary or of administration within 60 days next after the death

of the decedent and there is, real property, choses in action or other personal property

of the decedent within this state, or the evidence of choses in action in the hands

of a resident of this state, the surrogate's court of a county wherein any such real

property, choses in action or evidences thereof or other personal property, is situate,

or the superior court, may, in an action by any person resident or nonresident, alleging

himself to have a debt or legal claim against the decedent which by the law of this

state survives against his representatives, issue letters of administration, with

the will annexed or otherwise as the case may require, to some fit person to be designated

by the court. Prior to an appointment pursuant to this section such notice shall be given the foreign

executor or administrator as the court shall prescribe.