Hawaii probate leads and inheritance data, by county.
If you are researching Hawaii probate leads, the public court file is only one part of the inherited-property market. USLeadList starts with death and property records, typically about five weeks after death, and generates an average of 372 records a month across Hawaii.
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Hawaii counties
Browse 5 counties.Every Hawaii county has its own page. Highlighted counties currently generate the largest monthly record volume.
How inherited property moves in Hawaii
Verified state rules behind the county data.Probate rules matter because they determine when a public court record appears and which inherited properties never appear in an ordinary probate case.
What changes for an heir
Hawaii attaches no recurring state cost to holding an inherited house. Article VIII, section 3 of the state constitution reserves all functions, powers and duties relating to the taxation of real property exclusively to the counties, with the exception of the county of Kalawao, so there is no state property tax and no statewide reassessment on inheritance, and homeowner exemptions are county programs. The state death tax is the estate tax under HRS chapter 236E, whose applicable exclusion tracks the federal applicable exclusion under the Internal Revenue Code as amended as of December 21, 2017, so it reaches only large estates. Probate is avoidable: HRS chapter 527, the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, applies to a transfer on death deed executed at any time by a transferor who dies on or after July 1, 2011, and property passing that way produces no probate filing.
Where probate records appear
Circuit Court eCourt Kokua, the Hawaii State Judiciary public case search. Estate and probate cases in the circuit courts are searchable there by case ID. Ho'ohiki, the previous public case search, is no longer available and users are directed to eCourt Kokua.
Ways property can avoid ordinary probate
Transfer on death deed under HRS chapter 527, the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, added by Act 173 of 2011 and applicable where the transferor dies on or after July 1, 2011. For personal property only, the affidavit under HRS 560:3-1201 up to a $100,000 gross Hawaii estate.
Small-estate route
Affidavit for collection of personal property under HRS 560:3-1201 where the gross value of the decedent's estate in Hawaii does not exceed $100,000; motor vehicles registered in the decedent's name may be transferred regardless of value. The affidavit reaches personal property only and cannot transfer real property. A separate route, HRS 560:3-1205, allows the clerk of the circuit court to be authorized to administer an estate of a total value not exceeding $100,000. Both $100,000 figures were set by Act 48 of 2000 and are unchanged in the current Hawaii Revised Statutes.
Timing investors should understand
A person applying for appointment of a personal representative or for probate of a will may publish notice to creditors once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial circuit, requiring claims no later than four months after the date of first publication (HRS 560:3-801(a)). Claims arising before death are barred unless presented within the later of four months after that first publication or 60 days after service of written notice, and where no notice is published or served, within 18 months after the decedent's death (HRS 560:3-803(a)).
Hawaii inheritance volume
Updated monthly · October 2026 edition.Newly inherited residential properties recorded in Hawaii, from the same database that builds the lists. Published nationally in the Inheritance Property Index.
Biggest Hawaii counties by volume
Free to cite with attribution: USLeadList Inheritance Property Index, October 2026 edition. See every state and download the data.
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