HRS §531-28.5
When a court can approve selling estate property
This section explains when a personal representative or guardian can ask a court for permission to sell real property from an estate. The request must be made if the will requires it, or if a beneficiary or heir asks for it. The court can approve the sale if it helps the estate and proper notice was given.
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The statute, as written — Petition to sell real property
If required by the decedent's will or if demanded by a devisee in a testate probate proceeding or by an heir in an intestate probate proceeding, the personal representative or guardian shall present to the court having jurisdiction of the estate a petition setting forth the condition of the estate, and the facts and circumstances tending to show the necessity or expediency of the sale of real property. If it appears to the court either that it is necessary or that it would be advisable and for the benefit of the estate that the real property or any part thereof be sold, and that sufficient notice of the proposed sale has been given to interested persons as defined in section 560:1-201, the court may authorize the personal representative or guardian to sell the real property either at private sale or at public auction on such terms as the court shall order.
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§560:1-201 General definitions
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