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HRS §508D-17

Deadline for suing over missing disclosures

If you buy a home and think the seller failed to give you the required disclosure statement, you have two years to sue. The two years start when you get the disclosure, or if you never got one, when the sale is recorded. This law replaces any other time limits for these cases.

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The statute, as written — Limitation of actions

(a) Any action brought under this chapter shall commence within two years from the date the buyer received the disclosure statement; provided that if no disclosure statement was delivered to the buyer, then the action shall commence within two years of the recorded sale of the residential real property. (b) This chapter supersedes all other laws relating to the time for commencement of actions for failure to make the disclosures required by this chapter.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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