Hawaii timeline
Hawaii probate timeline and creditor deadlines
The statute states no universal waiting period for this route.
Hawaii creditor deadlines are set out below against the event each one runs from.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
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The statute for this route states no universal waiting period. That is recorded as “none stated” rather than as zero days, because a statute’s silence is not the same as a stated permission to proceed immediately. Other conditions in the same section still apply.
Creditor deadlines
- From publication of notice to creditors
- No later than four months after the date of the first publication of the notice to creditors (HRS § 560:3-801(a)).
- From actual notice to a known creditor
- No later than sixty days after service of written notice on a known or reasonably-ascertainable creditor (HRS § 560:3-801(b), 560:3-803(a)(1)(B)).
- Outer limit, running from death
- Within eighteen months after the decedent's death, if notice to creditors has not been published under § 560:3-801(a) or served under § 560:3-801(b) (HRS § 560:3-803(a)(2)).
How these combine. Hawaii runs multiple independently-triggered claim deadlines that cannot honestly collapse into one number: a four-month bar running from first publication of the notice to creditors (§ 560:3-801(a), published once a week for two successive weeks); a sixty-day actual-notice period for creditors served written notice (§ 560:3-801(b)); and an outer nonclaim bar of eighteen months after death where no notice to creditors has been published or served (§ 560:3-803(a)(2)). Publishing a single figure would mislead.
notifying creditors of the estate to present their claims no later than four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or be forever barredHaw. Rev. Stat. § 560:3-801 — Hawaii State Legislature; verified October 3, 2026.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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