New Jersey Statutes Title 3B. Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3B § 13A-8

a. A person or financial institution nominated or designated by the conservatee;

b. The conservatee's spouse;

c. One or more of the conservatee's adult children, or where there are none, the person or persons closest in degree of kinship to the conservatee; or

d. Some other proper person or financial institution as the court shall determine.

The court may, in its discretion, deviate from this order of priority if a potential conservator is unable or unwilling to serve or for some other good cause.