HRS §554-8
Court can order trust to pay attorney general's costs
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗In a court case about a charitable trust, if the attorney general is involved, the court can make the trust pay the attorney general's reasonable and necessary expenses. The money can come from the trust's main funds or its income, in amounts the court decides.
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The statute, as written — Charitable trusts; expenses
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 any proceedings, in any court, concerning a trust, which is wholly or partly charitable and in which the attorney general has been cited by the court or trustees as a necessary or proper party, the court having jurisdiction of such proceedings may require the payment of all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the attorney general for the protection of the beneficial interest in, or for the proper conduct of, such proceedings from the corpus or income, or both, of the trust estate, in such reasonable amounts as the court may order. [L Sp 1941, c 16, §1; RL 1945, §12578; RL 1955, §340-8; HRS §554-8]
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