(a) Instead of furnishing a copy of the trust instrument to a person other than a beneficiary, the trustee may furnish to the person a certification of trust containing the following information:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-1013

  • Court: means the circuit court in this State having jurisdiction over all subject matter relating to trusts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Person: means an individual; corporation; business trust; estate; trust; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether real or personal, legal or equitable, or any interest therein. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • Settlor: means a person, including a testator, who creates, or contributes property to, a trust. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • State: includes an Indian tribe or band recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • Terms of a trust: means :

    (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), the manifestation of the settlor's intent regarding a trust's provisions as:
    (A) Expressed in the trust instrument; or
    (B) Established by other evidence that would be admissible in a judicial proceeding; or
    (2) The trust's provisions, as established, determined, or amended by:
    (A) A trustee or other person in accordance with applicable law;
    (B) A court order; or
    (C) A nonjudicial settlement agreement under section -111. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • Trust instrument: means an instrument executed by the settlor that contains terms of the trust, including any amendments thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: includes an original, additional, and successor trustee, and a cotrustee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554D-103
(1) That the trust exists, the date the trust instrument was executed, and the name of the trust;
(2) The identity of the settlor;
(3) The identity and address of the currently acting trustee;
(4) The powers of the trustee;
(5) The revocability or irrevocability of the trust and the identity of any person holding a power to revoke the trust;
(6) The authority of cotrustees to sign or otherwise authenticate and whether all or less than all are required to exercise powers of the trustee; and
(7) If an action is to be undertaken through an agent, that delegation of the action to an agent is not prohibited by the trust instrument.
(b) A certification of trust may be signed or otherwise authenticated by any trustee.
(c) A certification of trust shall state that the trust has not been revoked, modified, or amended in any manner that would cause the representations contained in the certification of trust to be incorrect.
(d) A certification of trust shall not be required to contain the dispositive terms of a trust.
(e) A recipient of a certification of trust may require the trustee to furnish copies of those excerpts from the original trust instrument and later amendments that designate the trustee and confer upon the trustee the power to act in the pending transaction.
(f) A person who acts in reliance upon a certification of trust without knowledge that the representations contained therein are incorrect shall not be liable to any person for so acting and may assume without inquiry the existence of the facts contained in the certification. Knowledge of the terms of the trust shall not be inferred solely from the fact that a copy of all or part of the trust instrument is held by the person relying upon the certification.
(g) A person who in good faith enters into a transaction in reliance upon a certification of trust may enforce the transaction against the trust property as if the representations contained in the certification were correct.
(h) A person making a demand for the trust instrument in addition to a certification of trust or excerpts shall be liable for damages if the court determines that the person did not act in good faith in demanding the trust instrument.
(i) This section shall not limit the right of a person to obtain a copy of the trust instrument in a judicial proceeding concerning the trust.

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