Source: https://law.justia.com/codes/hawaii/2016/title-30a/chapter-560/section-560-3-203/
Timestamp: 2020-03-29 16:43:17
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 560', '§560', '§1', '§3', '§19', '§1']

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560:3-203 Priority among persons seeking appointment as personal representative.
HI Rev Stat § 560:3-203 (2016) What's This?
§560:3-203 Priority among persons seeking appointment as personal representative. (a) Whether the proceedings are formal or informal, persons who are not disqualified have priority for appointment in the following order:
(4) The surviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary of the decedent;
(b) An objection to an appointment can be made only in formal proceedings. In case of objection the priorities stated in subsection (a) apply except that:
(c) A person entitled to letters under subsection (a)(2) to (5) may nominate a qualified person to act as personal representative. Any person aged eighteen and over may renounce the person's right to nominate or to an appointment by appropriate writing filed with the court. When two or more persons share a priority, those of them who do not renounce shall concur in nominating another to act for them, or in applying for appointment.
(d) Conservators or guardians of the estates of protected persons, or if there is no conservator, any guardian except a guardian ad litem of a minor or incapacitated person, may exercise the same right to nominate, to object to another's appointment, or to participate in determining the preference of a majority in interest of the heirs and devisees that the protected person or ward would have if qualified for appointment.
(1) An individual under the age of eighteen; or
(h) This section governs priority for appointment of a successor personal representative but does not apply to the selection of a special administrator. [L 1996, c 288, pt of §1; am L 1997, c 244, §3 and c 383, §19; am L 2000, c 116, §1]