Hawaii Intestate Succession

Hawaii answers the no-will question in HRS 560:2-102, and the first word to notice is in its title: "Share of spouse or reciprocal beneficiary." A registered reciprocal beneficiary takes exactly what a surviving spouse takes. That person receives the entire intestate estate when no descendant and no parent of the person who died survives. The same holds when every surviving descendant is also the survivor's and the survivor has no other descendants.

Everywhere else the survivor takes a first-dollar amount plus a fraction. It is $400,000 plus three-fourths of the balance when a parent survives and no descendant does. It is $330,000 plus one-half when all the descendants are shared but the survivor has children of their own from another relationship. It is $220,000 plus one-half when any descendant of the person who died is not the survivor's.

Those three figures are the part to check first, because they are recent. Act 158 of the 2023 session doubled or more than doubled each of them, and many summaries and calculators still print the older $200,000, $150,000 and $100,000.

Every rule below was read on September 24, 2026 in the Hawaii Revised Statutes published by the Hawaii State Legislature, along with the history note printed under each section and the text of Act 158 itself. The compilation runs through the 2025 session, and the one 2026 act that amends chapter 560 (Act 47) deals with guardianship and conservatorship records rather than inheritance. Section numbers sit beside each rule so you can check them yourself.

This page answers the distribution question: who gets what. For how a Hawaii estate is opened, administered and closed, read the Hawaii probate process.

What Hawaii Intestacy Reaches

Dying without a will is called dying intestate. HRS 560:2-101(a) sends any part of an estate "not effectively disposed of by will" to the heirs named in the sections that follow. Partial intestacy is common. A will that leaves the house to a daughter and says nothing about a brokerage account leaves that account to these rules.

Ownership moves at the moment of death. HRS 560:3-101 says a decedent's real and personal property devolves to the heirs when there is no will, subject to the homestead allowance, exempt property and family allowance, to creditors, to the elective share, and to administration. The court case confirms and clears a title the statute already moved.

A will can shut an heir out even where it leaves property to intestacy

HRS 560:2-101(b) lets a will expressly exclude or limit the right of a person or a class to take by intestate succession. If that person survives, their share passes as though they had disclaimed it. So a will that says "my son takes nothing" and then misses part of the estate still keeps the son out of the missed part.

Two people can take an intestate share out of a valid will

Two sections hand a relative an intestate share even though the will is valid, and both turn on timing.

A spouse or reciprocal beneficiary the will predates. Under HRS 560:2-301, a spouse who married the testator, or a reciprocal beneficiary who entered the relationship, after the will was signed receives no less than the intestate share of the part of the estate not left to the testator's children from before the relationship (and their descendants). The share does not apply where the will was made in contemplation of the marriage or relationship, where the will says it survives a later marriage or relationship, or where the testator provided for the survivor outside the will in place of a gift under it.

A child born or adopted after the will. HRS 560:2-302 gives an omitted after-born or after-adopted child the intestate share when the testator had no children at signing, unless the will left all or nearly all of the estate to the child's other parent. Where the testator already had children who received gifts, the omitted child shares only in the gifts to those children.

Neither section makes the estate intestate. The estate stays a will estate, and the shares on this page set the size of one person's slice.

Property that names its own taker never reaches these rules

Anything already pointed at a living recipient passes outside the intestate estate:

• real estate under a transfer-on-death deed recorded or filed before the death (HRS 527-9)
• a bank account with a payable-on-death designation, or a joint account with right of survivorship
• life insurance and retirement accounts with a surviving named beneficiary
• property held in joint tenancy or tenancy by the entirety with a surviving co-owner
• anything already titled in a trust

The transfer-on-death deed has a filing rule worth checking before anyone assumes the land is handled. HRS 527-9 requires the deed to be recorded with the Bureau of Conveyances, or filed with the assistant registrar of the Land Court where the land is registered there, before the owner's death. A signed deed sitting in a drawer does not carry the land, so the property stays in the estate and divides under the shares below.

Three Allowances Come Off The Top First

Hawaii gives a surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary three amounts before the intestate shares are computed. Each statute says its amount is in addition to the intestate share rather than counted against it (HRS 560:2-402, 560:2-403 and 560:2-404(b)).

The homestead allowance has priority over all claims against the estate, and the family allowance has priority over every claim except the homestead allowance. The family allowance can run no longer than one year if the estate cannot pay its allowed claims. Where no spouse or reciprocal beneficiary survives, the $30,000 homestead allowance divides among the minor and dependent children, and the children jointly take the $20,000 exempt property value. The details of choosing property and the family allowance belong to what the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary can claim, which also covers the elective share against a will.

The Surviving Spouse Or Reciprocal Beneficiary's Share

HRS 560:2-102 runs four branches. Read them in order and stop at the first one that fits the family.

Four families, one $900,000 estate

Work the numbers on a $900,000 intestate estate, measured after debts, expenses and the three allowances. A husband dies. His wife survives.

1. Two children of the marriage, and the wife has no other children. Subsection (1)(B) applies. The wife takes the whole $900,000 and the children take nothing from the probate estate. Many families expect the children to share, and in Hawaii they do not.
2. Same family, but the wife also has a son from an earlier marriage. Subsection (3) applies. The wife takes $330,000 plus half of the remaining $570,000, which is $615,000. The two children of the marriage divide $285,000.
3. Same family, but the husband also has a daughter from an earlier marriage. Subsection (4) applies. The wife takes $220,000 plus half of the remaining $680,000, which is $560,000. The husband's three children divide $340,000.
4. No children at all, and the husband's mother survives. Subsection (2) applies. The wife takes $400,000 plus three-fourths of the remaining $500,000, which is $775,000. The mother takes $125,000.

The logic behind the branches is about who the survivor will pass property to later. When every descendant is shared and the survivor has no one else, the children should reach the property through the survivor, so the statute gives the survivor all of it. When either partner has children outside the relationship, the statute sets aside a share for the children now.

To see the shares for one particular family rather than in the abstract, run the facts through the Hawaii inheritance calculator.

Why the figures are newer than much of what is written about them

Section 9 of Act 158 of 2023 rewrote HRS 560:2-102. The printed act shows the old figures bracketed and struck: $200,000 became $400,000 in subsection (2), $150,000 became $330,000 in subsection (3), and $100,000 became $220,000 in subsection (4). The Governor approved the act on June 29, 2023, and section 51 made this part effective on approval.

The figures follow the date of death. Section 49 of the act says it does not affect rights that matured before its effective date, and an heir's rights attach at death under HRS 560:3-101. So an estate opened in 2026 for a death in early 2023 may still run on the older figures. Put a death close to June 29, 2023 in front of a Hawaii lawyer before dividing anything.

Who Counts As A Reciprocal Beneficiary

Hawaii created reciprocal beneficiary status in 1997, in HRS chapter 572C, for two adults who cannot marry each other. HRS 572C-4 requires that both be at least eighteen, that neither be married, in a civil union or in another reciprocal beneficiary relationship, that the two be legally prohibited from marrying one another under chapter 572, and that each sign a declaration. Since HRS 572-1 now permits marriage between two people without regard to gender, the pairs who still qualify are mostly relatives that section bars from marrying each other: a parent and an adult child, two siblings (half or whole blood), or an aunt or uncle and a niece or nephew.

Registration is a filing with the Department of Health. Under HRS 572C-5 the two file a signed, notarized declaration with the director of health, pay an $8 fee, and each receive a certificate of reciprocal beneficiary relationship.

Three rules decide whether a surviving reciprocal beneficiary inherits:

• A certificate has to exist. HRS 560:2-802(b)(4) excludes a person who does not have a certificate declaring the person who died as their reciprocal beneficiary.
• A termination ends it. Either party may end the relationship by filing a notarized declaration of termination under HRS 572C-7(a), and HRS 560:2-802(a) says a person who terminated the relationship is not a surviving reciprocal beneficiary unless the two registered again.
• A marriage or civil union ends it automatically. HRS 572C-7(c) terminates the relationship when either party marries or enters a civil union. A registered pair that later married inherits as spouses instead.

Civil union partners are a separate category. HRS 572B-9 gives partners to a civil union all the same rights, benefits and protections as married spouses, so a surviving civil union partner takes the spouse's share under HRS 560:2-102.

How The Rest Of The Estate Divides

HRS 560:2-103 takes whatever the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary does not take, or the whole estate where none survives, and runs it down this ladder:

1. To the descendants of the person who died, by representation (subsection (c)).
2. If no descendant survives, to the parents, with a share carved out for descendants of a deceased parent in some families (subsections (d) and (e)).
3. If no descendant or parent survives, to the descendants of the parents by representation: brothers and sisters, then nieces and nephews (subsection (f)).
4. If none of those survives, to the grandparents, with a share for descendants of a deceased grandparent (subsections (g) and (h)).
5. If no grandparent survives, to the descendants of the grandparents by representation: aunts, uncles and cousins (subsection (i)).
6. If none of those survives, to the descendants of a deceased spouse or reciprocal beneficiary by representation, which reaches stepchildren (subsection (j)).

HRS 560:2-105 sends the estate to the State only when there is no taker at all under that list.

Representation splits at the nearest generation with a survivor

HRS 560:2-106(b) divides the descendants' share into as many equal parts as there are surviving descendants in the nearest generation that has one, plus deceased descendants in that generation who left descendants. Each survivor in that generation takes one part. The remaining parts are pooled and divided the same way among the next generation down.

Take a widow with three children. One son survives. Two daughters died before her, one leaving one child and the other leaving three. The estate splits three ways at the children's generation: the son takes one-third, and the other two-thirds are pooled among the four grandchildren, so each takes one-sixth. The pooling step is what makes Hawaii's method differ from a strict per-stirpes split, which would give the only child of the first daughter a full third.

Now suppose all three children died first. Every survivor is a grandchild, so the division starts at the grandchild generation, and each of the five grandchildren takes one-fifth.

When a parent survives, a half sibling can share with that parent

The 2023 rewrite gave Hawaii a parent rule that surprises families. Under HRS 560:2-103(d), the parents' share divides into as many equal parts as there are surviving parents, plus deceased parents who left descendants. Each surviving parent takes one part, and each deceased parent's part passes by representation to that parent's descendants.

Subsection (e)(1) then removes the double count. If all the surviving descendants of a deceased parent are also descendants of a surviving parent, they are treated as having died first.

Here is what that means. A single man with no children dies. His mother survives. His father died earlier.

• If his only siblings are full siblings, they are also his mother's children, so subsection (e)(1) treats them as predeceased. The mother takes everything.
• If his father also had a son from an earlier marriage, not every descendant of the father is the mother's, so the father counts as a deceased parent with descendants. The estate splits in two: the mother takes one-half, and the father's half passes by representation to the full sister and the half brother, one-fourth each.

Grandparents take equal shares, without a paternal and maternal split

Subsection (g) uses the same method one generation up. The estate divides into equal parts for each surviving grandparent and each deceased grandparent who left descendants. Subsection (h) treats descendants of a deceased grandparent who are also descendants of a surviving grandparent as predeceased, and treats two deceased grandparents with exactly the same descendants as one.

Suppose both maternal grandparents survive and both paternal grandparents died, leaving one aunt. The two paternal grandparents share the same single descendant, so they count as one. The estate divides into three parts: one to each maternal grandparent and one to the aunt. Many states would split the estate half to each side instead.

Half blood inherits the same share as whole blood

HRS 560:2-107 says an heir inherits "without regard to how many common ancestors in the same generation the heir shares with the decedent." A half brother shares one parent with the person who died, a full brother two, and they take the same share. Hawaii carries no reduced half-blood share.

An heir related twice takes once

HRS 560:2-113 gives a person related to the person who died through more than one line a single share, the largest one available, and treats that person as predeceased in the other lines. This comes up when relatives married into the same family twice.

Who Counts As A Child

The 2023 act added a parent-child subpart to article II, and it answers most of the questions families ask.

Marital status does not matter. HRS 560:2-123 says a parent-child relationship exists between a child and the child's genetic parents regardless of whether the parents were married, subject to the exceptions for adoption and assisted reproduction.

Adoption. HRS 560:2-124 makes an adoptee the child of the adoptive parents. HRS 560:2-125(a) cuts the tie to the genetic parents, with exceptions worth reading twice:

• A stepparent adoption (by the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary of a genetic parent) keeps the child tied to that genetic parent, and lets the child and the child's descendants still inherit from and through the other genetic parent (subsection (b)).
• An adoption by a relative of a genetic parent, or by that relative's spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, lets the child still inherit from and through both genetic parents (subsection (c)).
• A child adopted after both genetic parents died can still inherit through either of them (subsection (d)).

Children conceived by assisted reproduction or born to a surrogate. HRS 560:2-126 and 560:2-127 set their own rules, and both were amended again by Act 298 of 2025. Where one of these births sits in the family, have a Hawaii lawyer read the current sections before relying on any summary.

Posthumous conception. HRS 560:2-104(b)(3) treats a child conceived by assisted reproduction after the death as living at the death if the personal representative learned of the intent to use the genetic material within six months after the death, and the embryo was in utero within thirty-six months or the child was born within forty-five months.

Two ways a parent loses the right to inherit from a child

HRS 560:2-114 bars a parent whose parental rights were terminated and never reestablished. It also bars a parent of a child who died before eighteen where clear and convincing evidence shows the parent's rights could have been terminated for nonsupport, abandonment, abuse or neglect. The barred parent is treated as having died before the child.

HRS 560:2-103(d)(2) adds a Hawaii-specific rule for a child who dies as a minor. A parent is treated as predeceased where clear and convincing evidence shows the parent deserted the minor for at least ninety days without leaving a means of identification, or failed for at least a year to communicate with the minor, or to support the minor despite a support order, while the minor was in someone else's custody.

The 120-Hour Rule, And The Case Where It Is Switched Off

HRS 560:2-104(b)(1) treats a person who fails to survive the person who died by one hundred twenty hours as having died first, for intestate succession, the homestead allowance and exempt property. Survival has to be proved by clear and convincing evidence, and without that proof the person is treated as having failed the test. A child in gestation at the death counts as living at the death if the child lives one hundred twenty hours after birth.

Subsection (c) carries the carve-out that generic summaries drop. The rule does not apply where applying it would send the estate to the State under HRS 560:2-105. A distant heir who died two days after the person who died still inherits where treating that heir as predeceased would leave no taker.

Divorce, And Other People Who Are Not A Surviving Spouse

HRS 560:2-802(a) says a person divorced from the person who died, or whose marriage was annulled, is not a surviving spouse unless they remarried each other. A decree of separation that does not end the marriage is not a divorce for this purpose.

Subsection (b) removes more people from the definition. A spouse who obtained or consented to a divorce or annulment that Hawaii does not treat as valid is excluded, unless the couple later went through a marriage ceremony or lived together as husband and wife. So is a person who married someone else after an invalid decree obtained by the person who died, and a person who was party to a valid proceeding ending all marital property rights. The reciprocal beneficiary rules in the section above sit in the same subsection.

Other Rules That Change Who Takes What

The slayer rule. HRS 560:2-803(b) says a person who feloniously and intentionally kills the person who died forfeits all benefits under article II, including the intestate share, the elective share and the three allowances. The estate passes as if the killer had disclaimed the intestate share.

Lifetime gifts count only if somebody wrote it down. HRS 560:2-109 treats a lifetime gift to an heir as an advancement against that heir's share only where the person who died declared it one in a contemporaneous writing, or the heir acknowledged it in writing. The property is valued when the heir took possession or at the death, whichever came first. If the heir died first, the gift is not charged against the heir's descendants unless the writing says so.

Citizenship does not matter. HRS 560:2-111 says no one is disqualified from taking as an heir because they, or someone they claim through, is or was an alien.

Dower and curtesy are gone. HRS 560:2-112 abolished them, so a Hawaii spouse's rights come from the intestate share, the allowances and the elective share rather than a life estate in land.

Hawaii is not a community property state. HRS chapter 510 governs property from the 1945 to 1949 period when Hawaii had a community property system, and, in part II, property a married person acquired as community property under another state's law. Ordinary Hawaii property divides under the shares on this page.

Getting An Intestate Hawaii Estate Settled

The statutes name the heirs. Somebody still has to collect the property and hand it over.

Hawaii probate runs in the circuit court, and with no will there is no named executor. The court appoints a personal representative, and HRS 560:3-203(a) ranks who has priority:

1. a person with priority under a probated will
2. the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary who is a devisee
3. other devisees
4. the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary
5. other heirs
6. any creditor, once forty-five days have passed since the death

In an intestate estate the first three steps are empty, so the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary comes first, then the heirs. Under HRS 560:3-203(c), a person entitled to letters may nominate someone else to serve, and anyone eighteen or older may renounce the right in writing. For what the job involves once you are appointed, read about who serves as personal representative and the duties that come with it.

The affidavit route for a small estate

Many intestate estates never need a personal representative. HRS 560:3-1201 lets a successor collect personal property with a death certificate and an affidavit stating that the gross value of the decedent's estate in Hawaii does not exceed $100,000, and that no petition to appoint a personal representative is pending or has been granted in Hawaii. Motor vehicles registered in the decedent's name may be transferred by the affidavit regardless of their value.

Two details decide whether that route fits. The measure is gross value, so a mortgage does not reduce it. And the affidavit collects personal property, so a home in Hawaii has to pass another way. The successor also has to state their relationship to the person who died, which is where the shares on this page come in. For the full test, see collecting a small estate without probate.

If you would rather choose the outcome than accept the statute's answer, making a valid Hawaii will covers signing, witnesses and handwritten wills.

When To Talk To A Hawaii Lawyer

Many Hawaii intestate estates divide straight off HRS 560:2-102. Bring in a licensed Hawaii attorney when:

• the death came on or before June 29, 2023, so the older spousal figures may apply
• either partner has a child from another relationship, so subsection (3) or (4) decides the share
• the survivor claims as a reciprocal beneficiary or civil union partner and the certificate cannot be found, or a termination or later marriage is in question
• a parent survives and there are half siblings, so HRS 560:2-103(d) and (e) decide the split
• an adoption, an assisted-reproduction birth or a surrogacy arrangement sits anywhere in the line
• two family members died within five days of each other
• a homicide charge is pending against someone in line to inherit
• the estate holds Hawaii land and the person who died lived in another state
• a transfer-on-death deed was signed but never recorded or filed
• a lifetime gift is claimed as an advancement and the writing is missing or unclear

This page organizes the statutory shares and the questions worth asking. Confirm anything that decides a particular estate with the circuit court handling it or with a licensed Hawaii attorney.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who inherits if there is no will in Hawaii?

HRS 560:2-102 pays the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary first. That person takes the whole intestate estate when no descendant and no parent of the person who died survives, or when every surviving descendant is also theirs and they have no other descendants. Otherwise they take $400,000 plus three-fourths of the rest (a parent survives, no descendants), $330,000 plus one-half (all descendants are shared, but the survivor has other descendants), or $220,000 plus one-half (any descendant is not the survivor's). Whatever is left passes under HRS 560:2-103 to descendants, then parents, then the descendants of parents, then grandparents and their descendants, then the descendants of a deceased spouse or reciprocal beneficiary.

Does a reciprocal beneficiary inherit like a spouse in Hawaii?

Yes. HRS 560:2-102 is titled Share of spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, and every branch of it names both. A reciprocal beneficiary registered under HRS chapter 572C takes exactly the intestate share a surviving spouse would take. The relationship has to be in force at the death: HRS 560:2-802 excludes a person without a certificate naming the person who died, and a relationship that was terminated or that ended automatically on a marriage or civil union under HRS 572C-7.

Are the Hawaii spouse figures $200,000, $150,000 and $100,000?

Not anymore. Section 9 of Act 158 of the 2023 session struck those three figures from HRS 560:2-102 and wrote in $400,000, $330,000 and $220,000. The act was approved on June 29, 2023 and took effect on approval. Many articles and calculators still print the older figures. For a death before June 29, 2023, confirm which figures apply with a Hawaii lawyer, because section 49 of the act leaves rights that matured before its effective date alone.

Do half brothers and half sisters inherit in Hawaii?

Yes, and a half sibling is not cut down to a half share. HRS 560:2-107 says an heir inherits without regard to how many common ancestors in the same generation the heir shares with the person who died. The parent-share rules in HRS 560:2-103(d) and (e) can matter more: when one parent survives, a half sibling related only through the deceased parent can take part of the estate alongside that surviving parent.

Does Hawaii have a 120-hour survival rule?

Yes. HRS 560:2-104 treats an heir who fails to survive the person who died by one hundred twenty hours as having died first, for intestate succession, the homestead allowance and exempt property. Survival has to be shown by clear and convincing evidence. Subsection (c) switches the rule off where applying it would send the estate to the State under HRS 560:2-105.

When does a Hawaii estate go to the State?

Only when no one in the statutory list survives. HRS 560:2-103 runs to the descendants of the grandparents, which reaches cousins of any degree, and then to the descendants of a deceased spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, which reaches stepchildren. HRS 560:2-105 sends the estate to the State only if there is no taker under those provisions.

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• Title: HRS 560:2-123, No distinction based on marital status. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0123.htm
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• Title: HRS 560:2-125, Adoptee and adoptee's genetic parents. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0125.htm
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• Title: HRS 560:2-302, Omitted children. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0302.htm
• Title: HRS 560:2-402, Homestead allowance. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0402.htm
• Title: HRS 560:2-403, Exempt property. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0403.htm
• Title: HRS 560:2-405, Source, determination, and documentation. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0405.htm
• Title: HRS 560:2-802, Effect of divorce, annulment, decree of separation, and termination of reciprocal beneficiary relationship. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0802.htm
• Title: HRS 560:2-803, Effect of homicide on intestate succession, wills, trusts, joint assets, life insurance, and beneficiary designations. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0803.htm
• Title: HRS 560:3-101, Devolution of estate at death; restrictions (article III part 1). Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0003-0101.htm
• Title: HRS 560:3-203, Priority among persons seeking appointment as personal representative. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0003-0203.htm
• Title: HRS 560:3-1201, Collection of personal property by affidavit. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0003-1201.htm
• Title: HRS 572C-4, Requisites of a valid reciprocal beneficiary relationship. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0572C/HRS_0572C-0004.htm
• Title: HRS 572C-5, Registration as reciprocal beneficiaries; filing fees; records. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0572C/HRS_0572C-0005.htm
• Title: HRS 572C-7, Termination of reciprocal beneficiary relationship; filing fees and records; termination upon marriage. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0572C/HRS_0572C-0007.htm
• Title: HRS 572B-9, Benefits, protections, and responsibilities (civil unions). Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0572B/HRS_0572B-0009.htm
• Title: HRS 560:2-404, Family allowance. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0560/HRS_0560-0002-0404.htm
• Title: HRS 572-1, Requisites of valid marriage contract. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0572/HRS_0572-0001.htm
• Title: HRS chapter 510, Community Property (chapter contents). Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0510/HRS_0510-.htm
• Title: HRS 527-9, Requirements (transfer on death deed). Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-24. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0527/HRS_0527-0009.htm
• Title: Act 158, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023 (S.B. No. 483), Relating to the Uniform Probate Code. Publisher: Hawaii State Legislature. Publication Date: Approved June 29, 2023. URL: https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/slh/Years/SLH2023/SLH2023_Act158.pdf

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