HRS §533-9
When a wife loses her right to dower
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says a wife does not get dower rights if the marriage ends in divorce. She also loses dower rights if she willfully and completely left her husband for a year or more before he died. Dower is a legal right to part of a husband's property.
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The statute, as written — Barred by divorce or misconduct
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.
In case of divorce dissolving the marriage contract, the wife shall not be endowed. No wife who has for one year or upwards, previous to the death of her husband, wilfully and utterly deserted her husband, shall be endowed or be entitled by way of dower to any property owned by him at the date of his death. [CC 1859, §1307; RL 1925, §3025; RL 1935, §4838; RL 1945, §12108; am L 1945, c 212, §1; RL 1955, §319-9; HRS §533-9]
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