HRS §560:1-102
How to read and use this law
This section explains how to interpret the entire chapter. It says the law should be read broadly to support its goals. The goals are to simplify rules about estates, missing people, protected people, minors, and incapacitated people, to honor a deceased person's wishes, to handle estates quickly, to help with trusts, and to make laws consistent across states.
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The statute, as written — Purposes; rule of construction
(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies. (b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are to: (1) Simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons; (2) Discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property; (3) Promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to the decedent's successors; (4) Facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; and (5) Make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
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