STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2042

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2408

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2408 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARTITION OF HEIRS PROPERTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to adopt the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, which establishes procedures and remedies applicable to actions for partition of real property that is deemed heirs property.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation.

 

     Your Committee finds that in 2010, the Uniform Law Commission promulgated the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act to provide a fair solution to the risks posed to those who own heirs property, which is real property held in tenancy in common that meets certain requirements.  This measure adopts language that closely mirrors the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, which establishes a hierarchy of remedies designed to protect a family's property holdings and real property wealth and is intended to provide cotenants with many of the protections and rights commonly found in private agreements governing the partition of tenancy in common property.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2408 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair