New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 6-49

When a trustee appointed by a will probated in the surrogate's or county court of any county or a trustee appointed under a trust inter vivos as to real or personal property situate in any county fails or refuses to act or dies before the execution or completion of the trust committed to him, or absconds or removes from this state, is adjudicated a mental incompetent or becomes in any manner legally incapable of executing the trust, the county court of the county or the superior court may remove the trustee, if he be alive, and appoint a suitable person or persons to execute the trust, and the trustee or trustees so appointed shall be entitled to the trust estate as fully and in the same manner as the original trustee was and shall have all the power of the original trustee.