Reliable Real Estate Transactions, Estate Planning, and Business Attorneys in Honolulu, Hawaii

Hawaii Convey can help you with legal matters relating to drafting and recording deeds and other real estate transactions, including the following:

• Preparing and recording deeds, timeshare transfers, and other Hawaii real estate conveyance documents, including Transfer on Death Deeds; preparing and reviewing commercial leases (representing lessors and lessees); preparing easement documents, etc.
• Preparation and review of documents for real estate transactions involving residential and commercial properties (with or without Realtor representation), including preparing Purchase & Sale Agreements to sell or purchase properties or to buy out, or to sell to, other co-owners of a property, performing due diligence for acquisition properties, doing document reviews, etc.
• Preparation of loan documents for commercial and private lenders, including banks and credit unions, doing “trust reviews,” and assisting borrowers in negotiating commercial loan packages
• Preparation, filing, and recording of simple and complex Land Court Petitions
• Updating and clearing title issues, including probates and trust distributions and noting the death of a joint tenant or a spouse (in the case of tenant-by-the-entirety)

We can assist you with Estate Planning and Estate Administration services, which can help you, your family, and your loved ones by providing legal tools to assist during the aging process and with end-of-life decisions. Often, individuals and families are confused and at a loss as to what to do to plan for the “later years,” as well as determining “who gets it when you go.” Hawaii Convey can help your family prepare for your future aging and care and help you navigate estate administration in cases where a parent or loved one has already passed. Our services include:

• Preparation of estate plans, including Revocable Living Trusts, Last Wills and Testaments, financial/medical Durable Powers of Attorney, Living Wills, and Deeding and Transferring Property into Trust
• Provide guidance on properly funding your Revocable Living Trust to avoid probate, including proper designations of certain “rights-of-survivorship assets” like IRAs, 401-Ks, insurance, etc. 
• Informal and formal probates, Acknowledgments of Authority, Special Administrations, and Ancillary Probates
• Providing guidance and preparation of necessary documents for trust and estate administration, deeding property into trusts, and trust distributions
• Preparing adverse Trust Petitions to assist trustees and beneficiaries involved in trust disputes, including obtaining trustee instructions, removing trustees, addressing issues like trustees improperly occupying trust properties, resolving disputes involving trust distributions or the failure of a trustee to make proper trust distributions, and other “like” disputes such as siblings co-owning properties often received from their parents that might require a threatened or actual partition action, etc. 

Timeshares are a common way families enjoy the beauty of the State of Hawai’i. Hawaii Convey can help you with legal matters relating to the transfer of your timeshare interest, including the following:

• Preparation and recording of timeshare deeds and conveyance documents, including deeds to transfers timeshare interest into trust to avoid a future probate, to address divorce decrees or marriage, or to transfer timeshare interests to children or other loved ones
• Preparation and filing of necessary probate documents, including deeds for the transfer of timeshare interests out of a decedent’s probate estate or out of their trust estate after death
• Consolidation of timeshare interests within the same timeshare project

Hawaii Convey can assist you with your many legal needs relating to a new or existing business, including the following:

• Formation of corporations, limited liability companies, and other legal entities, as well as transferring assets and deeding property into and out of your entity(ies)
• Preparation of business acquisition and disposition documents, including assets sales and transfers of business ownership interests as well as transfers of ownership interests into trust, as well as handling company governance issues and family business succession issues
• Assisting corporate and other entities with the assembly and maintenance of corporate documents, including stock ledgers
• Assisting in resolving disputes involving co-owners of a business as well as dissolving corporations and other entities

We have also assisted our clients with other legal matters, including:

• Civil and Trust litigation, as well as negotiating “work-outs” and “settlements” involving disputes between and with Trustees, beneficiaries, co-owners (including tenant in common owners) of real properties, and businesses, family disputes over property, business disputes between co-owners of a business, etc.
• Mediation and arbitration of civil matters
• Administrative law matters before the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources and the City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting