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R.L., Plaintiff-Respondent, v. VOYTAC, 199 N.J. 285, 971 A.2d 1074 (N.J.2009).

At issue in this matter is the interpretation of the statute of limitations provision of the Child Sexual Abuse Act (the Act), N.J.S.A. 2A:61B-1. The Act provides in relevant part that an action for child sexual abuse shall be brought within two years after the 'reasonable discovery of the injury and its causal relationship to the act of sexual abuse.' N.J.S.A. 2A:61B-1b. Additionally, the Act provides for a tolling of the statute of limitations because of 'the plaintiff's mental state, duress by the defendant, or any other equitable grounds.' N.J.S.A. 2A:61B-1c. We conclude that pursuant to the Act, the trial court must first determine when a reasonable person subjected to childhood abuse would discover that the defendant's conduct caused him or her injury. That is an objective test. If that period is more than two years prior to the filing of the complaint, then the court must next determine whether the statute should be tolled because of 'the plaintiff's mental state, duress by the defendant, or any other equitable grounds.'

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