HRS §558-7
Personal property
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says what happens when a recorded document calls a beneficiary's interest personal property. If the document says it, that rule controls in Hawaii. If it doesn't, the interest is treated as real property.
beneficiaries
The statute, as written — Personal property
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 all cases where the recorded instrument contains a provision defining and declaring the interest of beneficiaries to be personal property only, the provision shall be controlling for all purposes where the determination becomes an issue under the laws or in the courts of this State. If no personal property designation appears in the recorded instrument, the interest of the beneficiaries shall be real property.
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