If more than one permitted transfer is made by means of the same trust instrument:

(1) The making of a subsequent permitted transfer shall be disregarded in determining whether a creditor‘s claim with respect to a prior permitted transfer is extinguished as provided in § 554G-8; and

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 554G-11

  • 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
  • Claim: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554G-2
  • Creditor: means , with respect to a transferor, a person who has a claim. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554G-2
  • Permitted transfer: means a transfer of permitted property by or from one or more transferors who own an undivided interest in the property to one or more trustees, at least one of which is a permitted trustee, by means of a trust instrument, regardless of whether consideration is exchanged. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554G-2
  • Transfer: means the disposition, conveyance, or assignment of property, including the change in the legal ownership of property occurring upon the substitution of one trustee for another or the addition of one or more new trustees, or the exercise of a power that causes the disposition, conveyance, or assignment of permitted property to a trustee or trustees, but shall not include the release or relinquishment of an interest in property that was formerly the subject of a permitted transfer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554G-2
  • Trust instrument: means an irrevocable instrument appointing a permitted trustee or permitted trustees for the permitted property that is the subject of a disposition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 554G-2
(2) Any distribution to a beneficiary shall be deemed to have been made from the latest permitted transfer.