(a) A custodial trustee shall register or record the instrument transferring title to custodial trust property if appropriate.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-7

  • 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 trust property: means an interest in property transferred to a custodial trustee under this chapter and the income from and proceeds of that interest. 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
  • Incapacitated: means that an individual lacks the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority, or other cause. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Legal representative: means a personal representative or conservator. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Transferor: means a person who creates a custodial trust by transfer or declaration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Trust company: means a financial institution, corporation, or other legal entity, authorized to exercise general trust powers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554B-1
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(b) In the management, control, investment, or retention of custodial trust property, a custodial trustee shall follow the directions of the beneficiary if the beneficiary is not incapacitated. In the absence of effective contrary direction by the beneficiary while not incapacitated, the custodial trustee shall observe the standard of care that would be observed by a prudent person dealing with property of another and is not limited by any other law restricting investments by fiduciaries. However, a custodial trustee, in the custodial trustee’s discretion, may retain any custodial trust property received from the transferor. If a trust company or other custodial trustee has a special skill or expertise or is named custodial trustee on the basis of representation of a special skill or expertise, the custodial trustee shall use that skill or expertise.
(c) Subject to subsection (b), a custodial trustee shall take control of and collect, hold, manage, invest, and reinvest custodial trust property.
(d) A custodial trustee at all times shall keep custodial trust property of which the custodial trustee has possession and control, separate and distinct from all other property in a manner sufficient to identify it clearly as custodial trust property of the beneficiary. Custodial trust property subject to recordation is so identified if it is recorded, and custodial trust property subject to registration is so identified if it is registered, or held in an account designated, in the name of the custodial trustee followed by words stating in substance: “as custodial trustee for _________________________ (name of beneficiary) under the Hawaii Uniform Custodial Trust Act.”
(e) A custodial trustee shall keep records of all transactions with respect to custodial trust property, including information necessary for the preparation of tax returns, and shall make the records and information available at reasonable intervals to the beneficiary or legal representative of the beneficiary.
(f) The exercise of a durable power of attorney for an incapacitated beneficiary is not effective to terminate or direct the distribution or management of the custodial trust.

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