Hawaii Revised Statutes
560. Uniform Probate Code
560:3-405 Formal testacy proceedings; uncontested cases; hearings and proof.

§560:3-405 Formal testacy proceedings; uncontested cases; hearings and proof. If a petition in a testacy proceeding is unopposed, the court may order probate or intestacy on the strength of the pleadings if satisfied that the conditions of section 560:3-409 have been met, or conduct a hearing in open court and require proof of the matters necessary to support the order sought. If evidence concerning execution of the will is necessary, the affidavit or testimony of one of any attesting witnesses to the instrument is sufficient. If the affidavit or testimony of an attesting witness is not available, execution of the will may be proved by other evidence or affidavit. [L 1996, c 288, pt of §1]

Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes

Hawaii Revised Statutes

Title 30A. Uniform Probate Code

560. Uniform Probate Code

560:1-101 to 560:1-403 REPEALED. §560:1-101

560:1-102 Purposes; rule of construction.

560:1-103 Supplementary general principles of law applicable.

560:1-104 Severability.

560:1-105 Construction against implied repeal.

560:1-106 Effect of fraud and evasion.

560:1-107 Evidence of death or status.

560:1-108 Acts by holder of general power.

560:1-201 General definitions.

560:1-301 Territorial application.

560:1-302 Subject matter jurisdiction.

560:1-303 Venue; multiple proceedings; transfer.

560:1-304 Practice in court.

560:1-305 Records and certified copies.

560:1-306 Jury trial.

560:1-307 Registrar; powers.

560:1-308 Appeals.

560:1-309 Reserved.

560:1-310 Oath or affirmation on filed documents.

560:1-311 Documents sealed upon filing.

560:1-401 Notice; method and time of giving.

560:1-402 Notice; waiver.

560:1-403 Pleadings; when parties bound by others; notice.

560:2-101 to 560:2-902 REPEALED. §560:2-101 Intestate estate.

560:2-102 Share of spouse or reciprocal beneficiary.

560:2-103 Share of heirs other than surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary.

560:2-104 Requirement that heir survive decedent for one hundred twenty hours.

560:2-105 No taker.

560:2-105.5 Escheat of kuleana lands.

560:2-106 Representation.

560:2-107 Kindred of half blood.

560:2-108 Afterborn heirs.

560:2-109 Advancements.

560:2-110 Debts to decedent.

560:2-111 Alienage.

560:2-112 Dower and curtesy abolished.

560:2-113 Individuals related to decedent through two lines.

560:2-114 Parent and child relationship.

560:2-201 Definitions.

560:2-202 Elective share.

560:2-203 Composition of the augmented estate.

560:2-204 Decedent's net probate estate.

560:2-205 Decedent's nonprobate transfers to others.

560:2-206 Decedent's nonprobate transfers to the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary.

560:2-207 Surviving spouse's or reciprocal beneficiary's property and nonprobate transfers to others.

560:2-208 Exclusions, valuation, and overlapping application.

560:2-209 Sources from which elective share payable.

560:2-210 Personal liability of recipients.

560:2-211 Proceeding for elective share; time limit.

560:2-212 Right of election personal to surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary; incapacitated surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary.

560:2-213 Waiver of right to elect and of other rights.

560:2-214 Protection of payors and other third parties.

560:2-301 Entitlement of spouse or reciprocal beneficiary; premarital will.

560:2-302 Omitted children.

560:2-401 Applicable law.

560:2-402 Homestead allowance.

560:2-403 Exempt property.

560:2-404 Family allowance.

560:2-405 Source, determination, and documentation.

560:2-501 Who may make will.

560:2-502 Execution; witnessed wills; holographic wills.

560:2-503 Writings intended as wills, etc.

560:2-504 Self-proved will.

560:2-505 Who may witness.

560:2-506 Choice of law as to execution.

560:2-507 Revocation by writing or by act.

560:2-508 Revocation by change of circumstances.

560:2-509 Revival of revoked will.

560:2-510 Incorporation by reference.

560:2-511 Testamentary additions to trusts.

560:2-512 Events of independent significance.

560:2-513 Separate writing identifying devise of certain types of tangible personal property.

560:2-514 Contracts concerning succession.

560:2-515 Reserved.

560:2-516 Duty of custodian of will; liability.

560:2-517 Penalty clause for contest.

560:2-601 Scope.

560:2-602 Will may pass all property and after-acquired property.

560:2-603 Antilapse; deceased devisee; class gifts.

560:2-604 Failure of testamentary provision.

560:2-605 Increase in securities; accessions.

560:2-606 Nonademption of specific devises; unpaid proceeds of sale, condemnation, or insurance; sale by conservator or agent.

560:2-607 Nonexoneration.

560:2-608 Exercise of power of appointment.

560:2-609 Ademption by satisfaction.

560:2-701 Scope.

560:2-702 Requirement of survival by one hundred twenty hours.

560:2-703 Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument.

560:2-704 Power of appointment; meaning of specific reference requirement.

560:2-705 Class gifts construed to accord with intestate succession.

560:2-706 Life insurance; retirement plan; transfer-on-death registration; deceased beneficiary.

560:2-707 Survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of trust; substitute takers.

560:2-708 Class gifts to "descendants", "issue", or "heirs of the body"; form of distribution if none specified.

560:2-709 Representation; per capita at each generation; per stirpes.

560:2-710 Worthier-title doctrine abolished.

560:2-711 Interest in "heirs" and like.

560:2-801 REPEALED.

560:2-802 Effect of divorce, annulment, decree of separation, and termination of reciprocal beneficiary relationship.

560:2-803 Effect of homicide on intestate succession, wills, trusts, joint assets, life insurance, and beneficiary designations.

560:2-804 Revocation of probate and nonprobate transfers by divorce or termination of reciprocal beneficiary relationship; no revocation by other changes of circumstances.

560:2-901 to 560:2-907 Reserved.

560:2-1001 to 560:2-1010 Reserved.

560:3-101 to 560:3-1215 REPEALED. §560:3-101 Devolution of estate at death; restrictions.

560:3-102 Necessity of order of probate for will.

560:3-103 Necessity of appointment for administration.

560:3-104 Claims against decedent; necessity of administration.

560:3-105 Proceedings affecting devolution and administration; jurisdiction of subject matter.

560:3-106 Proceedings within the exclusive jurisdiction of court; service; jurisdiction over persons.

560:3-107 Scope of proceedings; proceedings independent; exception.

560:3-108 Probate, testacy and appointment proceedings; ultimate time limit.

560:3-109 Statutes of limitation on decedent's cause of action.

560:3-201 Venue for first and subsequent estate proceedings; location of property.

560:3-202 Appointment or testacy proceedings; conflicting claim of domicile in another state.

560:3-203 Priority among persons seeking appointment as personal representative.

560:3-204 Demand for notice of order or filing concerning decedent's estate.

560:3-301 Informal probate or appointment proceedings; application; contents.

560:3-302 Informal probate; duty of registrar; effect of informal probate.

560:3-303 Informal probate; proof and findings required.

560:3-304 Informal probate; unavailable in certain cases.

560:3-305 Informal probate; registrar not satisfied.

560:3-306 Informal probate; notice requirements.

560:3-307 Informal appointment proceedings; delay in order; duty of registrar; effect of appointment.

560:3-308 Informal appointment proceedings; proof and findings required.

560:3-309 Informal appointment proceedings; registrar not satisfied.

560:3-310 Informal appointment proceedings; notice requirements.

560:3-311 Informal appointment unavailable in certain cases.

560:3-312 to 560:3-322 Reserved.

560:3-401 Formal testacy proceedings; nature; when commenced.

560:3-402 Formal testacy or appointment proceedings; petition; contents.

560:3-403 Formal testacy proceedings; notice of hearing on petition.

560:3-404 Formal testacy proceedings; written objections to probate.

560:3-405 Formal testacy proceedings; uncontested cases; hearings and proof.

560:3-406 Formal testacy proceedings; contested cases; testimony of attesting witnesses.

560:3-407 Formal testacy proceedings; burdens in contested cases.

560:3-408 Formal testacy proceedings; will construction; effect of final order in another jurisdiction.

560:3-409 Formal testacy proceedings; order; foreign will.

560:3-410 Formal testacy proceedings; probate of more than one instrument.

560:3-411 Formal testacy proceedings; partial intestacy.

560:3-412 Formal testacy proceedings; effect of order; vacation.

560:3-413 Formal testacy proceedings; vacation of order for other cause.

560:3-414 Formal proceedings concerning appointment of personal representative.

560:3-501 Supervised administration; nature of proceeding.

560:3-502 Supervised administration; petition; order.

560:3-503 Supervised administration; effect on other proceedings.

560:3-504 Supervised administration; powers of personal representative.

560:3-505 Supervised administration; interim orders; distribution and closing orders.

560:3-601 Qualification.

560:3-602 Acceptance of appointment; consent to jurisdiction.

560:3-603 Bond not required without court order, exceptions.

560:3-604 Bond amount; security; procedure; reduction.

560:3-605 Demand for bond by interested person.

560:3-606 Terms and conditions of bonds.

560:3-607 Order restraining personal representative.

560:3-608 Termination of appointment; general.

560:3-609 Termination of appointment; death or disability.

560:3-610 Termination of appointment; voluntary.

560:3-611 Termination of appointment by removal; cause; procedure.

560:3-612 Termination of appointment; change of testacy status.

560:3-613 Successor personal representative.

560:3-614 Special administrator; appointment.

560:3-615 Special administrator; who may be appointed.

560:3-616 Special administrator; appointed informally; powers and duties.

560:3-617 Special administrator; formal proceedings; power and duties.

560:3-618 Termination of appointment; special administrator.

560:3-701 Time of accrual of duties and powers.

560:3-702 Priority among different letters.

560:3-703 General duties; relation and liability to persons interested in estate; standing to sue.

560:3-704 Personal representative to proceed without court order; exception.

560:3-705 Duty of personal representative; information to heirs and devisees.

560:3-706 Duty of personal representative; inventory and appraisement.

560:3-707 Employment of appraisers.

560:3-708 Duty of personal representative; supplementary inventory.

560:3-709 Duty of personal representative; possession of estate.

560:3-710 Power to avoid transfers.

560:3-711 Powers of personal representatives; in general.

560:3-712 Improper exercise of power; breach of fiduciary duty.

560:3-713 Sale, encumbrance, or transaction involving conflict of interest; voidable; exceptions.

560:3-714 Persons dealing with personal representative; protection.

560:3-715 Transactions authorized for personal representatives; exceptions.

560:3-716 Powers and duties of successor personal representative.

560:3-717 Co-representatives; when joint action required.

560:3-718 Powers of surviving personal representative.

560:3-719 Compensation of personal representative.

560:3-720 Expenses in estate litigation.

560:3-721 Proceedings for review of employment of agents and compensation of personal representatives and employees of estate.

560:3-801 Notice to creditors.

560:3-802 Statutes of limitations.

560:3-803 Limitations on presentation of claims.

560:3-804 Manner of presentation of claims.

560:3-805 Classification of claims.

560:3-806 Allowance of claims.

560:3-807 Payment of claims.

560:3-808 Individual liability of personal representative.

560:3-809 Secured claims.

560:3-810 Claims not due and contingent or unliquidated claims.

560:3-811 Counterclaims.

560:3-812 Execution and levies prohibited.

560:3-813 Compromise of claims.

560:3-814 Encumbered assets.

560:3-815 Administration in more than one state; duty of personal representative.

560:3-816 Final distribution to domiciliary representative.

560:3-901 Successors' rights if no administration.

560:3-902 Distribution; order in which assets appropriated; abatement.

560:3-903 Right of retainer.

560:3-904 Interest on general pecuniary devise.

560:3-905 Penalty clause for contest.

560:3-906 Distribution in kind; valuation; method.

560:3-907 Distribution in kind; evidence.

560:3-908 Distribution; right or title of distributee.

560:3-909 Improper distribution; liability of distributee.

560:3-910 Purchasers from distributees protected.

560:3-911 Partition for purpose of distribution.

560:3-912 Private agreements among successors to decedent binding on personal representative.

560:3-913 Distributions to trustee.

560:3-914 Disposition of unclaimed assets.

560:3-915 Distribution to person under disability.

560:3-916 Apportionment of estate taxes.

560:3-1001 Formal proceedings terminating administration; testate or intestate; order of general protection.

560:3-1002 Formal proceedings terminating testate administration; order construing will without adjudicating testacy.

560:3-1003 Closing estates; by sworn statement of personal representative.

560:3-1004 Liability of distributees to claimants.

560:3-1005 Limitations on proceedings against personal representative.

560:3-1006 Limitations on actions and proceedings against distributees.

560:3-1007 Certificate discharging liens securing fiduciary performance.

560:3-1008 Subsequent administration.

560:3-1101 Effect of approval of agreements involving trusts, inalienable interests, or interests of third persons.

560:3-1102 Procedure for securing court approval of compromise.

560:3-1201 Collection of personal property by affidavit.

560:3-1202 Effect of affidavit.

560:3-1203 Small estates; summary administration procedure.

560:3-1204 Small estates; closing by sworn statement of personal representative.

560:3-1205 Estates of $100,000 or less; clerk of court to administer.

560:3-1206 Publication by clerk of appointment as personal representative; notice to creditors, heirs, etc.

560:3-1207 Presentation of claims of creditors.

560:3-1208 Claims barred when.

560:3-1209 Duties of clerk and distribution.

560:3-1210 Undistributed proceeds or balances, disposition.

560:3-1211 Exemption from costs.

560:3-1212 Estates of persons leaving no known relatives.

560:3-1213 Reserved.

560:3-1214 Annual audit of accounts of clerk.

560:3-1215 Prohibition on the private practice of law by attorneys for small estates.

560:4-101 to 560:4-401 REPEALED. §560:4-101 Definitions.

560:4-201 Payment of debt and delivery of property to domiciliary foreign personal representative without local administration.

560:4-202 Payment or delivery discharges.

560:4-203 Resident creditor notice.

560:4-204 Proof of authority-bond.

560:4-205 Powers.

560:4-206 Power of representatives in transition.

560:4-207 Ancillary and other local administrations; provisions governing.

560:4-301 Jurisdiction by act of foreign personal representative.

560:4-302 Jurisdiction by act of decedent.

560:4-303 Service on foreign personal representative.

560:4-401 Effect of adjudication for or against personal representative.

560:5-101 to 560:5-105 REPEALED. §560:5-101 Short title.

560:5-102 Definitions.

560:5-103 Reserved.

560:5-104 Facility of transfer

560:5-105 Delegation of power by parent or guardian.

560:5-106 Subject matter jurisdiction.

560:5-107 Transfer of jurisdiction.

560:5-108 Venue.

560:5-109 Practice in court.

560:5-110 Letters of office.

560:5-111 Effect of acceptance of appointment.

560:5-112 Termination of or change in guardian's or conservator's appointment.

560:5-113 Notice.

560:5-114 Waiver of notice.

560:5-115 Guardian ad litem.

560:5-116 Request for notice; interested persons.

560:5-117 Multiple appointments or nominations.

560:5-201 to 560:5-212 REPEALED. §560:5-201 Appointment and status of guardian.

560:5-202 Parental appointment of guardian.

560:5-203 Objection by minor or others to parental appointment.

560:5-204 Judicial appointment of guardian; conditions for appointment.

560:5-205 Judicial appointment of guardian; procedure.

560:5-206 Judicial appointment of guardian; priority of minor's nominee; limited guardianship.

560:5-206.5 Judicial appointment of guardian; disability.

560:5-207 Duties of guardian.

560:5-208 Powers of guardian.

560:5-209 Rights and immunities of guardian.

560:5-210 Termination of guardianship; other proceedings after appointment.

560:5-301 to 560:5-313 REPEALED. §560:5-301 Appointment and status of guardian.

560:5-302 Appointment of guardian by will or other writing.

560:5-303 Appointment of guardian by will or other writing; effectiveness; acceptance; confirmation.

560:5-304 Judicial appointment of guardian; petition.

560:5-305 Judicial appointment of guardian; preliminaries to hearing.

560:5-306 Judicial appointment of guardian; professional evaluation.

560:5-307 Confidentiality of records.

560:5-308 Judicial appointment of guardian; presence and rights at hearing.

560:5-309 Notice.

560:5-310 Who may be guardian; priorities.

560:5-311 Findings; order of appointment.

560:5-312 Emergency guardian.

560:5-313 Temporary substitute guardian.

560:5-314 Duties of guardian

560:5-315 Powers of guardian.

560:5-316 Rights and immunities of guardian; limitations.

560:5-317 Reports; monitoring of guardianship.

560:5-318 Termination or modification of guardianship.

560:5-401 to 560:5-432 REPEALED. §560:5-401 Protective proceeding.

560:5-402 Jurisdiction over business affairs of protected person.

560:5-403 Original petition for appointment or protective order.

560:5-404 Notice.

560:5-405 Original petition; minors; preliminaries to hearing

560:5-406 Original petition; preliminaries to hearing.

560:5-407 Confidentiality of records.

560:5-408 Original petition; procedure at hearing.

560:5-409 Original petition; orders.

560:5-410 Powers of court

560:5-411 Required court approval.

560:5-412 Protective arrangements and single transactions.

560:5-413 Who may be conservator; priorities.

560:5-414 Petition for order subsequent to appointment.

560:5-415 Bond.

560:5-416 Terms and requirements of bond.

560:5-417 Compensation and expenses.

560:5-418 General duties of conservator

560:5-419 Inventory; records.

560:5-420 Reports; appointment of kokua kanawai.

560:5-421 Title by appointment.

560:5-422 Protected person's interest inalienable.

560:5-423 Sale, encumbrance, or other transaction involving conflict of interest.

560:5-424 Protection of person dealing with conservator.

560:5-425 Powers of conservator in administration

560:5-426 Delegation.

560:5-427 Principles of distribution by conservator.

560:5-428 Death of protected person

560:5-429 Presentation and allowance of claims.

560:5-430 Personal liability of conservator.

560:5-431 Termination of proceedings.

560:5-432 Payment of debt and delivery of property to foreign conservator without local proceeding.

560:5-433 Foreign conservator; proof of authority; bond; powers.

560:5-501, 560:5-502 REPEALED.

560:5-601 Definitions.

560:5-602 Sterilization of wards.

560:5-603 Initiation of proceeding.

560:5-604 Appointment of guardian ad litem.

560:5-605 Notice.

560:5-606 REPEALED.

560:5-606.5 Reproductive rights advisory list.

560:5-607 Hearing.

560:5-608 Criteria.

560:5-609 Appeals.

560:5-610 REPEALED.

560:5-611 Confidentiality of and access to records.

560:5-612 No liability arising from sterilization; exception.

560:6-101 Definitions.

560:6-102 Ownership as between parties, and others; protection of financial institutions.

560:6-103 Ownership during lifetime.

560:6-104 Right of survivorship.

560:6-105 Effect of written notice to financial institution.

560:6-106 Accounts and transfers nontestamentary.

560:6-107 Rights against multiple-party accounts.

560:6-108 Financial institution protection; payment on signature of one party.

560:6-109 Financial institution protection; payment after death or disability; joint account.

560:6-110 Financial institution protection; payment of payable-on-death account.

560:6-111 Financial institution protection; payment of trust account.

560:6-112 Financial institution protection; discharge.

560:6-113 Financial institution protection; set-off.

560:6-201 Reserved.

560:7-101 to 560:7-501 REPEALED.

560:8-101 Time of taking effect; provisions for transition.

560:8-102 Specific repealer and amendments.

560:8-201 Effect and transition.

560:8-301 Effect.