Hawaii timeline
Hawaii probate timeline: when creditor claims close
The statute states no universal waiting period for this route.
In Hawaii, claims are due four months after first publication, or 60 days after mailed notice if later; each clock is set out below against the event it runs from.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Sources rechecked October 3, 2026. This page last revised .
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The statute for this route states no universal waiting period. That is recorded as “none stated” rather than as zero days, because a statute’s silence is not the same as a stated permission to proceed immediately. Other conditions in the same section still apply.
Creditor deadlines
- From publication of notice to creditors
- No later than four months after the date of the first publication of the notice to creditors (HRS § 560:3-801(a)).
- From actual notice to a known creditor
- For a known creditor sent written notice by mail or other delivery, four months after the published notice or sixty days after the mailing or delivery, whichever is later (HRS § 560:3-801(b), 560:3-803(a)(1)(B)).
- Outer limit, running from death
- Within eighteen months after the decedent's death, if notice to creditors has not been published under § 560:3-801(a) or served under § 560:3-801(b) (HRS § 560:3-803(a)(2)).
How these combine. Hawaii runs multiple independently-triggered claim deadlines that cannot honestly collapse into one number: a four-month bar running from first publication of the notice to creditors (§ 560:3-801(a), published once a week for two successive weeks); for a known creditor sent written notice by mail or other delivery, the later of four months after publication or sixty days after the notice (§ 560:3-801(b)); and an outer nonclaim bar of eighteen months after death where no notice to creditors has been published or served (§ 560:3-803(a)(2)). Publishing a single figure would mislead.
Source: Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-801, HRS § 560:3-801 — Notice to creditors(Hawaii State Legislature; rechecked October 3, 2026).
The section’s own words
notifying creditors of the estate to present their claims no later than four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or be forever barred
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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