A transfer on death deed:

(1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), shall contain the essential elements and formalities of a properly recordable inter vivos deed;

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-9

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Transferor: means an individual who executes a transfer on death deed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 527-2
(2) Shall state that the transfer to the beneficiary is to occur at the transferor‘s death; and
(3) Shall be recorded with the bureau of conveyances or filed in the office of the assistant registrar of the land court, as applicable, before the transferor’s death.