HRS §432:2-403
Benefits cannot be taken to pay debts
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗Money or other benefits from a society cannot be taken by creditors through legal processes like garnishment to pay a member's or beneficiary's debts. This protection applies before and after the society pays the benefit.
beneficiaries
The statute, as written — Benefits not attachable
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No money or other benefit, charity, relief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by a society, shall be liable to attachment, garnishment or other process, or to be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to pay any debt or liability of a member or beneficiary, or any other person who may have a right thereunder, either before or after payment by the society.
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