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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-3

  • 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
  • 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
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

A custodial trust may be created upon the occurrence of a future event. The person having the right to designate the recipient of property payable or transferable upon a future event may designate in writing a custodial trustee to receive and hold the property for a beneficiary of a custodial trust to be effective upon the occurrence of the event by designating the recipient, followed in substance by the words: “as custodial trustee for ______________________________ (name of beneficiary) under the Hawaii Uniform Custodial Trust Act”. Persons may be designated as substitute or successor custodial trustees to whom the property must be transferred in the order named if the first designated custodial trustee is unable or unwilling to serve. The designation may be made in a will, a trust, a deed, a multiple party account, an insurance policy, an instrument exercising a power of appointment, or other writing designating a beneficiary of contractual rights. The designation must be registered with or delivered to the fiduciary, payor, issuer, or obligor of the future right.