HRS §560:3-901
Getting property when no one handles the estate
If no one goes through probate, the people who inherit get the property as the will or state law says. They can prove they own it with the will or by showing the owner died and they are related. They still owe debts and must respect others' rights.
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The statute, as written — Successors' rights if no administration
In the absence of administration, the heirs and devisees are entitled to the estate in accordance with the terms of a probated will or the laws of intestate succession. Devisees may establish title by the probated will to devised property. Persons entitled to property by homestead allowance, exemption or intestacy may establish title thereto by proof of the decedent's ownership, decedent's death, and their relationship to the decedent. Successors take subject to all charges incident to administration, including the claims of creditors and allowances of surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary and dependent children, and subject to the rights of others resulting from abatement, retainer, advancement, and ademption.
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