(a) A person may create a custodial trust of property by transfer evidenced by registration or other written instrument of transfer to another in any manner consistent with law, naming an individual, who may be the transferor or another, as beneficiary, in which the transferee is designated, in substance, as custodial trustee under the Hawaii Uniform Custodial Trust Act.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-2

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Beneficiary: means an individual for whom property has been delivered to a custodial trustee for the individual's use and benefit under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Conservator: means a person appointed or qualified by a court to manage the estate of an individual or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Custodial trust property: means an interest in property transferred to a custodial trustee under this chapter and the income from and proceeds of that interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Custodial trustee: means a person designated as trustee of a custodial trust under this chapter and includes a substitute or successor custodial trustee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Incapacitated: means that an individual lacks the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority, or other cause. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Transferor: means a person who creates a custodial trust by transfer or declaration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(b) A person may create a custodial trust of property by declaration evidenced by registration or other written instrument of declaration in any manner consistent with law, naming an individual other than the declarant as beneficiary, in which the declarant as titleholder is designated, in substance, as custodial trustee under the Hawaii Uniform Custodial Trust Act. A trust registration or other declaration for the sole benefit of the declarant is not a custodial trust under this chapter.
(c) Title to custodial trust property is in the custodial trustee, and the beneficial interest in custodial trust property is in the beneficiary, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(d) Except as provided in subsection (e), a custodial trust may not be terminated by the transferor.
(e) A custodial trust may be terminated by the beneficiary if not incapacitated, or by the conservator of an incapacitated beneficiary, upon delivering to the custodial trustee a writing signed by the beneficiary or conservator declaring the termination. The exercise of a durable power of attorney for an incapacitated beneficiary is not effective to terminate or direct the distribution or management of the trust. If not previously terminated, the custodial trust terminates on the death of the beneficiary, and the custodial trust property must be distributed as provided in § 554B-17.
(f) Additional property may be placed in an existing custodial trust pursuant to this chapter.
(g) A successor custodial trustee may be designated, or the designation authorized, by the custodial trust instrument.
(h) This chapter does not restrict other means of creating trusts. A trust whose terms do not conform to this chapter may be valid and enforceable according to its terms under other law.

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