HRS §667-9
When a sale ends a wife's dower claim
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says when a mortgage is sold, a wife's old right to dower is ended if she had no lawful wife at the time or if she joined the mortgage deed to give up her dower. The sale then blocks any dower claim.
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The statute, as written — Dower barred, when
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
If the mortgage was executed by a man having at the time no lawful wife, or if the mortgagor being married, his wife joined in the deed in token of her release of dower, the sale of the property in the mode aforesaid shall be effectual to bar all claim and possibility of dower in the property.
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