HRS §651-96
Protecting your exemption money after a property sale
If you get money from selling your home as your exemption, that money is protected from creditors for six months, just like the home was. If you use the money to buy a new home within that time, the new home gets the same protection as if you had owned it since the old sale.
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The statute, as written — After sale, money equal to real property exemption protected
The money paid to the defendant as the defendant's exemption shall be entitled, for the period of six months thereafter, to the same protection against attachment and execution which section 651-92 gives to the real property. If the defendant, within such six-month period, applies such proceeds to the purchase of real property, the date of such acquisition and commencement of residence for the purpose of section 651-92(b)(5), shall be considered to be the date of the acquisition of interest in and commencement of residence on the real property whose sale resulted in such proceeds.
Sections this one refers to
§651-92 Which property is protected from debt collection
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