Hawaii Probate Guide

Hawaii probate is the circuit court proceeding that proves a will, appoints a personal representative, pays the estate's debts in a set order, and passes what is left to the heirs and devisees. HRS § 560:1-201 defines the court as the circuit court in this State having jurisdiction in matters relating to the affairs of decedents, and HRS § 603-21.6 gives the several circuit courts the power to grant probate of wills and appoint personal representatives.

So the forum answer is short. Hawaii has no county probate court. An estate opens in the circuit court of the judicial circuit where the decedent lived, and on most estates the first decision comes from the registrar rather than a judge. Look up the Circuit Court for your island before you file anything.

Hawaii's probate law is its version of the Uniform Probate Code, codified as HRS chapter 560. Every section carries a colon: HRS § 560:3-201 is article III, section 201. A 2023 act, Act 158, rewrote much of it, so a Hawaii article printed before mid-2023 may carry old dollar figures. What follows walks the forum, the routes, the steps, the clocks, the fees and the family's protected share.

Where You File

HRS § 603-1 divides the State into four judicial circuits, and the numbering skips a number. There is a First, Second, Third and Fifth circuit, and no Fourth. HRS § 603-2 styles each court "the circuit court of such circuit", which is why the name on the caption reads Circuit Court of the First Circuit rather than anything with a county in it.

HRS § 560:3-201(a) sets venue for the first informal or formal proceeding after a death:

• In the judicial circuit where the decedent was domiciled at the time of death.
• If the decedent was not domiciled in Hawaii, in any judicial circuit where property of the decedent was located at the time of death.

Every later proceeding stays where the first one happened under § 560:3-201(b), unless the file moves. Where the first proceeding was informal, § 560:3-201(c) lets an interested person apply, after notice to the first applicant, and the court may transfer the file once it finds venue lies elsewhere. The Hawaii probate courts by circuit directory lists each courthouse and its estate desk.

A mainland owner of a Maui condo or a Kona lot is the textbook case for subsection (a)(2). That route, and the thirty-day wait it triggers, is covered under Hawaii ancillary probate.

Four Ways an Estate Moves Through the Circuit Court

Two separate choices shape every Hawaii estate. Informal against formal describes how the will and the appointment get decided. Supervised against unsupervised describes how closely the court watches the administration afterward. An estate can open informally and later become supervised, or open formally and never be supervised at all. To compare informal, formal and supervised probate on one screen, the route comparison sits on its own page.

Informal probate before the registrar

HRS § 560:1-201 defines informal proceedings as those conducted without notice to interested persons by an officer of the court acting as a registrar. It defines an application as a written request to the registrar for an order of informal probate or appointment. Under HRS § 560:1-307, a judge or a person the court designates by a written order, including the clerk, may do what the chapter assigns to the registrar.

The applicant verifies the application under HRS § 560:3-301. It states the applicant's interest and contact details; the decedent's name, date of death, age and county and state of domicile; the names and addresses of the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, children, heirs and devisees, with the ages of any minors; any personal representative already appointed anywhere; any demand for notice; and that the five-year limit has not run. An application to probate a will adds that the original will is with the court or accompanies the application, that the applicant believes it was validly executed, and that reasonable diligence turned up no revoking instrument. Verifying the application submits the applicant personally to the court's jurisdiction for fraud or perjury claims about it.

Here is the Hawaii twist on the uniform act. HRS § 560:3-302(a) sets the 120-hour rule only for an application filed by a corporate fiduciary, a parent, spouse or reciprocal beneficiary of the decedent, or a descendant of a parent of the decedent. Anyone else files under § 560:3-302(b). The registrar sets a decision date, and the applicant must mail an advance notice under § 560:3-306(b) to the heirs and devisees with a copy of the application and the will. The registrar may act only after fourteen days have passed from the last mailing, proof of that notice is on file, and no formal petition has been filed.

The registrar then checks the § 560:3-303 findings. A will with the required signatures and an attestation clause is probated without further proof, and the application is denied if a personal representative was already appointed in another Hawaii circuit. Informal appointment of a personal representative works the same way under HRS § 560:3-307, with one extra delay: for a nonresident decedent, the registrar waits until thirty days have passed since the death, unless the domiciliary personal representative is the applicant or the will directs Hawaii law.

Notice mostly follows the grant. Section 560:3-306(a) requires notice of the application only to a person who demanded it and to any personal representative whose appointment has not ended. Within thirty days after an informal probate, § 560:3-306(c) requires written information to the heirs and devisees, including a note that attorney fees charged to the estate are reviewed by the probate court only if an interested person asks.

Formal testacy proceedings

HRS § 560:3-401(a) calls a formal testacy proceeding litigation to determine whether a decedent left a valid will. An interested person petitions the court to probate a will after notice and hearing, to set aside an informal probate, to stop a pending informal application, or to declare that the decedent died intestate. While that petition is pending, § 560:3-401(c) bars the registrar from acting on any informal application about the same decedent, and under § 560:3-401(d) a personal representative already appointed must stop making distributions.

Formal does not mean a bigger estate. It means a disputed or uncertain one: a later will, a missing original, a family that cannot agree on who serves. An objection to an appointment can be made only in formal proceedings under HRS § 560:3-203(b).

Timing matters most to a family that finds out late. Under HRS § 560:3-108(a)(3), a formal proceeding to contest an informally probated will must start within the earliest of ninety days after receiving the § 560:3-306 notice, twelve months from the informal admission, or thirty days from a formal order approving the informal personal representative's accounts. The deadline to contest a Hawaii will covers the grounds and the exceptions.

Supervised administration

HRS § 560:3-501 describes supervised administration as a single in rem proceeding under the continuing authority of the court, running until an order approves distribution and discharges the personal representative. A supervised personal representative answers to the court as well as to the interested parties.

It is not the default. Under HRS § 560:3-502, any interested person or the personal representative may petition at any time, and after notice the court orders supervision where the will directs it and circumstances have not changed, where the will directs unsupervised administration and supervision proves necessary to protect interested persons, or where the court otherwise finds it necessary.

Unsupervised administration is the ordinary Hawaii path. HRS § 560:3-704 tells a personal representative to proceed expeditiously with settlement and distribution without adjudication, order or direction of the court, and to invoke the court only to resolve questions.

Three small-estate routes

Hawaii attaches one $100,000 figure to two different routes, and a third route has no dollar figure at all.

The collection affidavit. HRS § 560:3-1201 makes anyone holding the decedent's personal property, or owing the decedent money, hand it to the claimed successor on 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 application or petition to appoint a personal representative is pending or has been granted in Hawaii. Motor vehicles registered in the decedent's name may transfer regardless of value. The test is gross value, so a mortgage or car loan does not lower it, and the section prints no waiting period. The Department of Human Services may present the same affidavit for a Medicaid claim, and its affidavit has priority over any other. The section moves personal property only; land does not pass by it. The $100,000 collection affidavit walks through the paperwork.

The clerk as personal representative. HRS § 560:3-1205 lets the clerk of the circuit court administer an estate where the decedent left property in Hawaii worth no more than $100,000 in total and no personal representative has been appointed. The clerk or any interested person files a verified petition, and the order may issue without notice or hearing at the court's discretion. HRS § 560:3-1211 frees these proceedings from court costs, apart from actual expenses and a fee of three per cent of the market value of the first $100,000 in the gross estate, paid to the State.

Summary administration. HRS § 560:3-1203 has no dollar figure. If the inventory shows the entire estate, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed the homestead allowance, exempt property, family allowance, administration costs, reasonable funeral expenses and the last illness's medical and hospital bills, the personal representative may distribute at once without notice to creditors. HRS § 560:3-1204 then closes the estate by verified statement.

The Route Most Estates Take, Step by Step

Apply or petition in the right circuit. HRS § 560:3-203(a) ranks who may serve: the person with priority under a probated will, then a surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary who is a devisee, then other devisees, then the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, then other heirs, and forty-five days after the death, any creditor. No one under eighteen may serve, and § 560:3-203(c) lets a person with priority nominate someone else, who takes the same priority.

Check the bond question. HRS § 560:3-603(a) requires no bond of a personal representative appointed in informal proceedings, with three exceptions: a special administrator where an interested party asks and the court agrees, a will that expressly requires bond, and a demand under § 560:3-605. The Hawaii probate bond page covers formal appointments.

Tell the heirs and devisees within thirty days. HRS § 560:3-705 requires every personal representative, other than a special administrator, to send the heirs and devisees notice of the appointment within thirty days, by delivery or ordinary mail. The notice names the personal representative, says whether bond was filed, identifies the court holding the papers, and states that the estate is being administered without court supervision but that recipients may ask for information and petition the court. Missing it is a breach of duty, but it does not undo the appointment.

Decide whether to publish the notice to creditors. HRS § 560:3-801(a) says the applicant may publish, once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial circuit where the case was filed. Claims are then due within four months of the first publication. After appointment, § 560:3-801(b) lets the personal representative mail notice to known creditors, and § 560:3-801(c) requires a reasonable review of the decedent's records to find them. Notice to creditors in Hawaii covers presenting, allowing and disputing claims.

Prepare the inventory within three months. HRS § 560:3-706 requires an inventory of property owned at death, in reasonable detail, with each item's fair market value on the date of death and any encumbrance. The personal representative files or mails it, sends a copy to any interested person who asks, and may also file the original with the court.

Pay in the statutory order. Where the assets will not cover everything, HRS § 560:3-805(a) ranks payment: administration costs and expenses; reasonable funeral expenses, including a Department of Human Services claim under HRS § 346-15; debts and taxes with federal preference; medical and hospital expenses of the last illness, including a department claim for those expenses under HRS § 346-37; debts and taxes with preference under other Hawaii laws; any other § 346-37 claim; then all other claims. No claim outranks another in the same class.

Close. HRS § 560:3-1003(a) lets an unsupervised personal representative close by filing a verified statement no earlier than six months after the original appointment. The statement confirms that the claim period has expired, that the estate is fully administered, and that a copy and a full written account went to the distributees and to any creditor still unpaid and unbarred. If nothing involving the personal representative is pending one year later, the appointment ends under § 560:3-1003(b).

What the job looks like day to day sits under what the personal representative has to do.

The Clocks

Read the creditor rows together. Publication is optional in Hawaii, so the eighteen-month bar in § 560:3-803(a)(2) is the price of skipping it: an estate that never publishes or mails notice stays open to pre-death claims for a year and a half after the death. How long Hawaii probate takes turns the table into a schedule.

The five-year limit in HRS § 560:3-108(a) applies to a proceeding to establish a will. Section 560:3-108(a)(4) allows a formal testacy proceeding after five years in listed cases, including newly discovered assets and a petition that every interested party entitled to notice joins. Under § 560:3-108(b), a proceeding to adjudicate intestacy may start at any time unless there was a prior probate proceeding, and § 560:3-108(c) exempts proceedings to construe a probated will or determine the heirs of an intestate.

What the Circuit Court Charges

Hawaii sets probate fees in statute, and the amount is the same in every circuit. HRS § 607-5 item (14) charges $100 for probate, administration, a domiciliary foreign personal representative or ancillary administration, "this fee to be paid once only for each decedent's estate". The schedule's preamble adds the part II fees to a probate case unless otherwise provided, and part II item (32) charges $50 for administrative costs on civil filings. HRS § 607-5.7 adds a $65 indigent legal services surcharge on an initial circuit court filing.

The Hawaii Judiciary's List of Civil Filing Fees prints exactly that under Probate: Application/Petition $100, Indigent Surcharge $65, Admin Fee $50. That makes $215 at filing, and what probate costs in Hawaii sets it beside the costs that come later. The same sheet lists a $3 affidavit fee, a $3 demand for notice, and $200 for a demand for jury trial.

Two figures in the same statutes are decoys. Section 607-5 item (1) charges $200 for a civil action, which is not the probate fee, and § 607-5.7 prints an older $50 surcharge that took effect in 2012 beside the $65 that replaced it in 2014. The clerk-administered route under § 560:3-1205 pays the § 560:3-1211 fee instead of these charges. For self-filers, Hawaii probate without a lawyer covers what the courts publish and what they do not.

Who Serves, and What They Are Paid

Hawaii publishes no commission schedule for personal representatives. HRS § 560:3-719 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for the personal representative's services. Where a will sets the pay and there is no contract with the decedent about it, the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead, and may renounce all or part of any fee in a writing filed with the court.

Keep that apart from the clerk's three per cent fee under § 560:3-1211. That fee applies only when the clerk administers a small estate, and it goes to the State.

What the Family Keeps Before Creditors Are Paid

Every allowance in Hawaii's code runs to a surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, and Act 158 of 2023 doubled the three dollar figures. The Act took effect on approval, June 29, 2023, and its section 49 leaves rights that matured before that date untouched, so an older estate may carry the earlier amounts.

• Homestead allowance, $30,000. HRS § 560:2-402 gives it to the surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, or divides it among minor and dependent children where there is none. It is exempt from and has priority over all claims.
• Exempt property, $20,000. HRS § 560:2-403 adds household furniture, automobiles, furnishings, appliances and personal effects worth up to $20,000 above any security interests, made up from other assets if the estate holds too little of that kind of property.
• Family allowance. HRS § 560:2-404 adds a reasonable allowance in money for maintenance during administration, capped at one year where the estate cannot pay allowed claims. Under HRS § 560:2-405(a), the personal representative may set it at up to $36,000 as a lump sum or $3,000 a month for one year, and the court may award a different amount on petition.

All three come in addition to whatever the will or intestacy gives the same people, unless the will says otherwise. Where there is no will, HRS § 560:2-102 gives a surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary the entire estate where no descendant or parent survives, or where every descendant is shared and the survivor has no other descendants. The share drops to the first $400,000 plus three-fourths of the balance where a parent survives but no descendant does, the first $330,000 plus half where every descendant is shared but the survivor has other descendants, and the first $220,000 plus half where any of the decedent's descendants is not the survivor's. Who inherits without a will works through the rest of the order.

Hawaii's Own Estate Tax

Hawaii has no inheritance tax: HRS chapter 236, the old inheritance and estate taxes law, was repealed in 1983. It does charge an estate tax under HRS chapter 236E. HRS § 236E-6 ties the exclusion to the federal applicable exclusion as the Internal Revenue Code stood on December 21, 2017, computed as if the decedent died on December 31, 2017. So the Hawaii exclusion does not follow the current federal amount. For a nonresident, § 236E-6(b) prorates the exclusion by the share of the federal gross estate held in Hawaii, and § 236E-6(c) presumes that every decedent with property in Hawaii died a resident, leaving the estate to prove otherwise. The Hawaii estate tax and federal estate tax page covers the rates and the return.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which court handles probate in Hawaii?

The circuit court. HRS § 560:1-201 defines court as the circuit court in this State having jurisdiction in matters relating to the affairs of decedents, and HRS § 603-21.6 gives the several circuit courts the power to grant probate of wills, appoint personal representatives and decree distribution. Hawaii has no county probate court. HRS § 603-1 divides the State into four judicial circuits, the First, Second, Third and Fifth, and there is no Fourth. Under HRS § 560:3-201(a)(1), the first proceeding belongs in the judicial circuit where the decedent was domiciled at death. For a decedent domiciled outside Hawaii, venue is any circuit where the decedent's property was located at death.

What is the difference between informal and formal probate in Hawaii?

Informal probate runs through the registrar without a hearing. HRS § 560:1-201 defines an application as a written request to the registrar, and HRS § 560:1-307 lets a judge, or a person the court designates by written order, including the clerk, act as registrar. A spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, parent, descendant of a parent or corporate fiduciary may receive informal probate once 120 hours have passed since the death under HRS § 560:3-302(a). A formal testacy proceeding is litigation. HRS § 560:3-401 defines it as litigation to determine whether a decedent left a valid will, decided by a judge after notice and hearing.

How much does it cost to open probate in Hawaii?

The Hawaii Judiciary's List of Civil Filing Fees prints three charges under Probate: the $100 application or petition fee, a $65 indigent surcharge and a $50 administrative fee, so $215 at filing. The statutes agree. HRS § 607-5 item (14) sets $100 for probate or administration, paid once only for each decedent's estate, item (32) adds $50 for administrative costs on civil filings, and HRS § 607-5.7 adds the $65 surcharge on an initial circuit court filing. Publication of a notice to creditors is paid to the newspaper and sits outside that total.

How long do creditors have to file a claim in a Hawaii estate?

Four months from the first publication of the notice to creditors, under HRS § 560:3-801(a) and § 560:3-803(a)(1)(A). Publication is optional in Hawaii: the statute says the applicant may publish, once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial circuit. A known creditor who receives mailed notice has the later of those four months or sixty days after the mailing. Where no notice was published or served at all, claims that arose before the death are barred eighteen months after the death under § 560:3-803(a)(2).

Does Hawaii have a small estate affidavit?

Yes. HRS § 560:3-1201 lets a successor collect personal property on an affidavit plus a death certificate where the gross value of the decedent's estate in Hawaii does not exceed $100,000 and no application or petition to appoint a personal representative is pending or granted in Hawaii. Motor vehicles registered in the decedent's name may transfer regardless of value. The measure is gross, so a mortgage does not lower it. The section prints no waiting period, and the Department of Human Services may present the same affidavit for a Medicaid claim with priority over any other claimant.

How long does a Hawaii personal representative have to act?

Thirty days after appointment to tell the heirs and devisees, under HRS § 560:3-705, and three months after appointment to prepare and file or mail an inventory at date-of-death fair market value, under HRS § 560:3-706. An unsupervised estate may close by verified statement no earlier than six months after the original appointment, under HRS § 560:3-1003(a). The outer limit for probating a will is five years after the death under HRS § 560:3-108(a), with listed exceptions.

Related Guides

• Hawaii Probate Timeline
• Hawaii Creditor Claims in Probate
• Hawaii Small Estate Affidavit
• Hawaii Executor Duties
• Hawaii Intestate Succession
• Hawaii Will Contests
• Hawaii Ancillary Probate
• Hawaii Probate Without a Lawyer
• Hawaii Probate Courts by Circuit

This page describes Hawaii law broadly rather than advising on one estate. Confirm every date and dollar figure with the circuit court holding the file, or with a licensed Hawaii attorney, before you act on it.

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