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Hawaii Code › Division 3 › Title 30A › Chapter 560 › Section 560:1-102
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(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are to:
(1) Simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors and incapacitated persons;
(2) Discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property;
(3) Promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to the decedent's successors;
(4) Facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; and
(5) Make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions. [L 1996, c 288, pt of §1]
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