STAND. COM. REP. NO.442-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2305

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2305 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PROBATE CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Provide deadlines for contesting informally probated wills that will prevent a will contest after an informal probate has been closed; and

(2) Set a deadline of eighteen months for a creditor to challenge a disallowance by a personal representative when the notice of disallowance does not advise of the 60-day limitations period to challenge it.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the Judiciary, the attorney members of the Judiciary Committee on the Uniform Probate Code and Probate Court Practices, and the Hawaii Bankers Association.

Your Committee finds that the amendments to the Hawaii Probate Code will address issues that can arise in the administration of probate estates.

Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity and to correct a drafting error.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2305, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2305, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair