HRS §560:3-202
What happens when two states claim the deceased person's home
If someone dies and two states both say the person lived there, and court cases about the will or who is in charge are happening in both states, Hawaii's court must pause, drop, or change its case unless Hawaii's case started first. The first state to start its case decides where the person lived, and Hawaii accepts that decision.
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The statute, as written — Appointment or testacy proceedings; conflicting claim of domicile in another state
If conflicting claims as to the domicile of a decedent are made in a formal testacy or appointment proceeding commenced in this State, and in a testacy or appointment proceeding after notice pending at the same time in another state, the court of this State must stay, dismiss, or permit suitable amendment in, the proceeding here unless it is determined that the local proceeding was commenced before the proceeding elsewhere. The determination of domicile in the proceeding first commenced must be accepted as determinative in the proceeding in this State.
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