Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 346 > Part III - General Assistance to Households Without Minor Dependents

• Adult: means an individual who has attained the age of twenty-one years. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Applicant: means the person for whose use and benefit application for services or public assistance is made. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Conservator: means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as general, limited, or temporary guardian of a minor's property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Court: means the circuit court of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Custodial property: means (1) any interest in property transferred to a custodian under this chapter and (2) the income from and proceeds of that interest in property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Custodian: means a person so designated under section 553A-9 or a successor or substitute custodian designated under section 553A-18. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Minor: means an individual who has not attained the age of twenty-one years. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-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
• Person: means an individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Personal representative: means an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, or special administrator of a decedent's estate or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Provider: means any person or public or private institution, agency or business concern authorized by the department to provide health care, service or supplies to beneficiaries of medical assistance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
• 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
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Transfer: means a transaction that creates custodial property under section 553A-9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Trust company: means a financial institution, corporation, or other legal entity, authorized to exercise general trust powers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 553A-1
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.