Hawaii Revised Statutes 539-2 – Registration in beneficiary form; sole or joint tenancy ownership
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 539-2
- 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 form: means a registration of a security which indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 539-1
- Property: includes both real and personal property or any interest therein and means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 539-1
- Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
- Security: means a share, participation, or other interest in property, in a business, or in an obligation of an enterprise or other issuer, and includes a certificated security, an uncertificated security, and a security account. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 539-1
- Sole ownership: The type of property ownership in which one individual holds legal title to the property and has full control of it.
Only individuals whose registration of a security shows sole ownership by one individual or multiple ownership by two or more with right of survivorship, rather than as tenants in common, may obtain registration in beneficiary form. Multiple owners of a security registered in beneficiary form hold as joint tenants with right of survivorship, as tenants by the entireties, or as owners of community property held in survivorship form, and not as tenants in common.