Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 527 - Uniform Real Property Transfer On Death Act

• Abused or neglected: means subjected to "harm" "imminent harm" or "threatened harm" as defined in section [587A-4]. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Adoption assistance: means the provision of one or more of the following to enable the adoption of children with special needs:

  (1) Monetary assistance;

  (2) Medical benefits; or

  (3) Social services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: means the person for whose use and benefit application for services or public assistance is made. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: means a person that receives property under a transfer on death deed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• 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}
• Child welfare services: means :

  (1) All services necessary for the protection and care of abused or neglected children and children in danger of becoming delinquent; and

  (2) All services necessary for the adoption of children. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1

• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Critical access hospital: means a hospital located in the State that is included in Hawaii's rural health plan approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and approved as a critical access hospital by the department of health as provided in Hawaii's rural health plan and as defined in title 42 United States Code § 1395i-4. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designated beneficiary: means a person designated in a transfer on death deed to receive property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• Director: means the director of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Domiciliary care: means the provision of twenty-four-hour living accommodations and personal care services and appropriate medical care, as needed, to adults unable to care for themselves by persons unrelated to the recipient in private residences or other facilities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Financial assistance: means public assistance, except for payments for medical care, social service payments, transportation assistance, and emergency assistance under § 346-65, including funds received from the federal government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Joint owner: means an individual who owns property concurrently with one or more individuals with a right of survivorship. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• Medical assistance: means payment for medical care or personal care services, including funds received from the federal government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Medical care: means all kinds of medical care, psychiatric care, dental care, and maternity care, including surgical care, hospital care, eye care (which includes optical appliances), materials, supplies, and all other appliances used in the care, treatment and rehabilitation of patients, and hospitalization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Minor dependents: means dependents living in the home of a specified adult, as defined by rules, in which the adult is the primary caretaker and the dependent is under eighteen or if between eighteen and nineteen, enrolled full-time in a program of secondary or equivalent level vocational or technical school, and is expected to complete the program before reaching age nineteen. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means an interest in real property located in this State that is transferable on the death of the owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• Public assistance: means financial assistance to or for the benefit of persons whom the department has determined to be without sufficient means of support to maintain a standard consistent with this chapter, payments to or on behalf of such persons for medical care, and social service payments as described under the Social Security Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recipient: means the person for whose use and benefit services are rendered or a grant of public assistance is made. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Social services: means crisis intervention, counseling, case management, and support activities such as day care and chore services provided by the department staff, by purchase of service, or by cooperative agreement with other agencies to persons meeting specified eligibility requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Subject property: means real property or an interest in real property that is subject to a transfer on death deed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transfer on death deed: means a deed authorized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
• Transferor: means an individual who executes a transfer on death deed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2