HRS §560:3-608
When a Personal Representative's Appointment Ends
This section explains what happens when a personal representative (the person managing a deceased person's estate) stops serving. It says the appointment ends under certain rules, but the representative still has limited powers to protect the estate and must still handle duties like accounting and delivering assets. The court keeps authority over them.
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The statute, as written — Termination of appointment; general
Termination of appointment of a personal representative occurs as indicated in sections 560:3-609 to 560:3-612. Termination ends the right and power pertaining to the office of personal representative as conferred by this chapter or any will, except that a personal representative, at any time prior to distribution or until restrained or enjoined by court order, may perform acts necessary to protect the estate and may deliver the assets to a successor representative. Termination does not discharge a personal representative from liability for transactions or omissions occurring before termination, or relieve the personal representative of the duty to preserve assets subject to the personal representative's control, to account therefor and to deliver the assets. Termination does not affect the jurisdiction of the court over the personal representative, but terminates the personal representative's authority to represent the estate in any pending or future proceeding.
Sections this one refers to
§560:3-609 When a personal representative dies or becomes incapacitated
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