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Every source behind the Hawaii guide

5 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 16 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch September 15, 2026

What each source establishes

The Hawaii guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-1201 (HRS 560:3-1201)

Hawaii State Legislature · [L 1996, c 288, pt of §1; am L 2000, c 48, §6 and c 102, §3] · Verified August 9, 2026

(1) The gross value of the decedent's estate in this State does not exceed $100,000

What this means: Hawaii's UPC affidavit measures GROSS value (not net of liens) and states no 30-day waiting period, differing from Idaho/Montana/North/South Dakota.

What was published from this source

  • HI Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-1201

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • gross threshold $100,000
  • section identity 560:3-1201
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-719 (HRS 560:3-719)

Hawaii State Legislature · [L 1996, c 288, pt of §1] · Verified August 9, 2026

§560:3-719 Compensation of personal representative. A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for the personal representative's services.

What this means: Publisher page is short (single section); content is complete statutory text.

What was published from this source

  • HI Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-719

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • reasonable compensation standard
  • section identity 560:3-719
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 607-5(c)(14) (HRS 607-5(c)(14))

Hawaii State Legislature · am L 2025, c 298, §23 · Verified August 9, 2026

(14) Probate, administration, domiciliary foreign personal representative, or ancillary administration, this fee to be paid once only for each decedent's estate ...... $100

What this means: The § 607-5 preamble excludes small estates whose amount is fixed by another statute, but schedule item (14) is itself the statute fixing the $100 probate/administration filing fee. Item (32) separately levies a $50 administrative cost on all civil filings except those brought by the State or its subdivisions; a probate filing is a civil filing, so the mandatory opening total is $150.

What was published from this source

  • HI Haw. Rev. Stat. § 607-5(c)(14)

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • probate filing fee $100
  • administrative cost $50
  • section identity 607-5
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-801 (HRS 560:3-801)

Hawaii State Legislature · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

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

What was published from this source

  • HI Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-801

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • publication 4-month bar
  • section identity 560:3-801
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-803(a)(2) (HRS 560:3-803(a)(2))

Hawaii State Legislature · [L 1996, c 288, pt of §1; am L 1997, c 244, §10; am L 2023, c 158, §42] · Verified August 9, 2026

Within eighteen months after the decedent's death, if notice to creditors has not been published as provided in section 560:3-801(a) or served as provided in section 560:3-801(b).

What this means: Hawaii's outer nonclaim bar is eighteen months from death where no notice to creditors is published or served — longer than the one-year bar most Uniform Probate Code states use (e.g., Montana, § 72-3-803(1)(a)).

What was published from this source

  • HI Haw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-803(a)(2)

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • outer nonclaim 18 months
  • section identity 560:3-803
  • section identity

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Hawaii provisions this site could not read

Not every state serves its own code. Where Hawaii did not, the attempt is recorded here instead of being covered over with a figure copied from a secondary summary. Each row names the authority that would settle the question and the page that failed to return it.

Authority soughtWhat is therefore not publishedTried on
Haw. Rev. Stat. (commissions of personal representatives)Hawaii’s commission schedule could not be read from the state’s own site — representative pay2026-09-17

Hawaii source decision map

How the Hawaii records fit together

The source record is most useful when each citation has a job. This map links the Hawaii procedure, cost, compensation, and deadline records to the decision each one can and cannot answer.

QuestionRecorded Hawaii answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Collection of personal property by affidavit (HRS § 560:3-1201)Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?personal probate property only; gross value for this route.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$100,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?No universal waiting period stated; 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); a sixty-day actual-notice period for creditors served written 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.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$150 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the Circuit Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?HRS § 560:3-719 entitles a personal representative to "reasonable compensation for the personal representative's services." There is no statutory percentage schedule. A will may fix compensation, but the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead. The relevant base is the estate accounting.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Decision boundary

What the Hawaii source set does not silently decide

The Hawaii records establish the rules listed above, but they do not turn a source citation into advice about title, family priority, tax filing, contested proceedings, or the exact clerk practice in every county. Those questions stay with the official court or a qualified adviser. The useful next step is to match the question to the citation rather than treating the longest quote as the answer to every estate problem.

Arithmetic illustration

See the Hawaii amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Hawaii ceiling is $100,000, and it is tested against personal probate property only, on a basis this site records as gross value for this route. Counted that way, $75,000 sits below the Hawaii figure and $125,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Hawaii counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Hawaii ceilingWhat it does not decide
$75,000Below $100,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$125,000Above $100,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Open the quoted record for the row you rely on and check the publisher's current text before filing.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Probate in Hawaii is handled by the Circuit Court of each judicial circuit. The Judiciary publishes statewide court forms and self-help resources. The $150 probate opening fee is fixed statewide by HRS § 607-5 — item (c)(14) ($100) plus the item (c)(32) administrative cost on all civil filings ($50); the § 560:3-1201 affidavit is a private demand instrument presented with a death certificate, not a court filing.

Source trail

Records used by this Hawaii map

What Hawaii courts publish

The statutes on this page state the rule. These are the documents the court itself publishes. Every link is probed before release, and any link that stops resolving fails the build rather than staying on the page.

Limits on court material

  • Probate in Hawaii is handled by the Circuit Court of each judicial circuit. The Judiciary publishes statewide court forms and self-help resources. The $150 probate opening fee is fixed statewide by HRS § 607-5 — item (c)(14) ($100) plus the item (c)(32) administrative cost on all civil filings ($50); the § 560:3-1201 affidavit is a private demand instrument presented with a death certificate, not a court filing.

Checking these Hawaii records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the254 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Hawaii. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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