HRS §560:4-303
How to deliver court papers to an out-of-state estate representative
This section explains how to give legal notice to a personal representative who lives outside Hawaii. You can mail the papers by registered or certified mail with a return receipt, or use regular mail if those aren't available. The representative gets at least 30 days to respond.
personal representatives
The statute, as written — Service on foreign personal representative
(a) Service of process may be made upon the foreign personal representative by registered or certified mail, addressed to the foreign personal representative's last reasonably ascertainable address, requesting a return receipt signed by addressee only. Notice by ordinary first class mail is sufficient if registered or certified mail service to the addressee is unavailable. Service may be made upon a foreign personal representative in the manner in which service could have been made under other laws of this State on either the foreign personal representative or the decedent immediately prior to death. (b) If service is made upon a foreign personal representative as provided in subsection (a), the foreign personal representative shall be allowed at least thirty days within which to appear or respond.
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