Estate Attorneys in Maui County, Hawaii

19 estate law firms have an office in Maui County, Hawaii, practicing estate planning, probate and trust administration. Each listing carries the firm's practice areas, its Maui County office and its phone.

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County

City

Practice Area

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Planning ahead

Estate Planning19 Special Needs Planning1 Asset Protection1 Medicaid Planning1

Settling an estate

Trust Administration15 Probate18 Probate Litigation3 Trust Litigation2

Capacity and care

Elder Law4 Conservatorship5 Guardianship5

Firm Type

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19 firms

Cades Schutte LLP

444 Hana Highway, Suite 204, Kahului, HI 96732

Statewide firm headquartered in downtown Honolulu with offices in Kahului, Kona, Lihue, and Waimea. Its Trusts & Estates Group counsels trustees and personal representatives through trust and estate administration, and handles conservatorship and guardianship proceedings and contested trust, estate, conservatorship, and guardianship matters through mediation or litigation.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationConservatorship+3

1-808-521-9200

Cain Herren McKelvey, ALC

2141 West Vineyard Street, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Maui County from Wailuku. Handles probate cases for the administration of a loved one's estate, and prepares wills, revocable living trusts, certifications of trust, trust amendments and restatements, deeds into trust, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. A general-practice firm whose other practice areas include bankruptcy, family law, and criminal defense.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-242-9350

Carlsmith Ball LLP

2200 Main Street, Suite 400, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Oahu, Hawaii Island, and Maui from offices in Honolulu, Hilo, Kailua-Kona, and Wailuku. Handles probate and trust administration, conservatorships and guardianships, and probate and trust litigation including disputed accountings and breach of fiduciary duty claims, alongside wills and trusts. Represents trustees and fiduciaries of large Hawaii dynastic trusts.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation

1-808-242-4535

Donald C. Chaikin, Attorney at Law LLLC

P.O. Box 1751, Kihei, HI 96753

Serves Maui County from Kihei. The practice lists probate and fiduciary services together with estate planning, tax planning, and income tax assistance.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder Law

1-808-280-2044

David R. Spee, Attorney at Law

62 Baldwin Avenue, Suite 2B, Paia, HI 96779

Serves Maui's North Shore from Paia. Solo attorney David R. Spee handles probate and estate administration and prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and beneficiary deeds. Licensed in Hawaii since 1989 and does not use mass-marketing seminars.

Solo PracticeSince 1994Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateProbate Litigation

1-808-579-8244

Daye Law LLLC

153 Kamehameha Avenue, Suite 104, Kahului, HI 96732

Serves Maui from Kahului. Handles probate proceedings, including estate disputes, alongside wills and living trusts. Attorney Jessica Daye holds a certificate in Native Hawaiian Law from Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-495-8880

Dwight K. Muraoka, Attorney at Law LLC

1885 Main Street, Suite 306, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Maui County from Wailuku. Handles trust administration and probate proceedings alongside estate planning, with legal assistants experienced in transfer (gift and estate) tax returns, deeds, and transfer on death deeds. Dwight Muraoka is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and has practiced solely in estate planning on Maui for over 34 years.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-242-0799

Gary Robert, Attorney at Law, A Law Corporation

808 Wainee Street, Suite 201, Lahaina, HI 96761

Serves West Maui, including Lahaina, and has practiced there since 1977. Handles probate filing and court representation, guidance for executors and beneficiaries, resolution of estate disputes, and trust administration, along with wills and revocable, irrevocable, and special needs trusts. Offers a free initial consultation for estate planning.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-667-7741

Hawaii Trust & Estate Counsel

2158 Main Street, Suite 203, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves clients statewide from offices in Waimea (Kamuela), Hilo, and Kona on Hawaii Island and Wailuku on Maui, with home visits on Oahu. The firm lists probate administration and trust administration alongside estate planning. In most cases the first meeting with an attorney is complimentary.

Serves the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-334-3343

Mancini, Welch & Geiger LLP (Rhonda M. Fosbinder)

305 E. Wakea Avenue, Suite 200, Kahului, HI 96732

Serves Maui from Kahului. Rhonda M. Fosbinder, of Mancini, Welch & Geiger LLP, handles estate administration with and without litigation, including probate, trust administration, and guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, and assists out-of-state heirs with inherited Hawaii property. She is licensed in Hawaii and California.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateElder LawConservatorshipGuardianship

1-808-871-8351

Josh James Attorney at Law, LLLC

2158 Main Street, Suite 102, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Maui from Wailuku. Handles the initial stages of probate, including appointment of personal representatives, probate of wills, intestate estates, and appointment of special administrators, as well as trust interpretation, guardianship, and conservatorship, and prepares wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. The attorney was raised on Maui; the practice also covers landlord-tenant, criminal defense, and family law.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningProbate

1-808-419-6937

Karen Temple Attorney at Law LLLC

1977 Kaohu Street, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Maui County from Wailuku. The firm handles decedent's estate administration, probate, estate and trust administration, transfer of assets to beneficiaries, estate and gift tax return consultation, and post-mortem planning. The firm has two attorneys, Karen Temple and an associate.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-244-8222

Kristen Spees Marchello, Attorney at Law

3449 Akala Drive, Kihei, HI 96753

Serves Maui from Kihei, with a second office in Incline Village, Nevada, and handles work by phone, email, and video. Kristen Spees Marchello serves as trustee, securing and managing trust assets, filing tax returns, accounting to beneficiaries, and making distributions, and she prepares deeds and amends existing trusts. She typically charges flat fees for documents.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-870-2687

Navarro-Buckingham, LLLC

360 Ho'ohana Street, Suite A103, Kahului, HI 96732

Serves Maui from Kahului. Handles probate administration, small estate administration, trust administration, and ancillary probate and acknowledgement-of-authority filings for Mainland families who lose a relative owning Hawaii property, along with Hawaii deed preparation and recording. Attorney Gloria Navarro Buckingham is licensed in Hawaii and California.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationConservatorshipGuardianship

1-808-873-5900

Obenauf Law Group

156 Central Avenue, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Maui from Wailuku. Handles probate administration and trust administration - filing the will and probate documents, inventorying and appraising assets, notifying and paying creditors, filing federal and Hawaii tax returns, and making distributions - as well as conservatorships and guardianships. Estate planning is billed on a flat-fee basis.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawConservatorship+2

1-808-244-3905

Law Office of Roya Deyhim LLLC

411 Huku Lii Place, Suite 201, Kihei, HI 96753

Serves Maui from Kihei, with clients in Hawaii and California. Roya Deyhim guides successor trustees through trust administration, including inventories, tax returns, and distribution to beneficiaries, and assists personal representatives in probate with asset gathering, estate tax analysis, and collection of death benefits. She founded the office in 2012 after practicing as a litigator in California.

Solo PracticeServes 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationCharitable Planning

1-808-891-8881

Sterling & Tucker, LLP

2158 Main Street, Suite 109, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Hawaii families from offices in Honolulu, Wailuku, and Hilo. Guides personal representatives and trustees through probate and trust administration, including asset management, tax filings, and communication with beneficiaries, and also handles estate planning and special needs planning. Co-founded by two certified public accountants turned attorneys, the firm holds free trust administration seminars on Maui and the Big Island.

Serves the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs Planning

1-800-807-3820

Wong Leong Cuccia

24 N. Church Street, Suite 407, Wailuku, HI 96793

Serves Maui County from Wailuku. Associate attorney Eyke BrathHurdman handles informal and ancillary probate and conservatorships and guardianships on a non-litigation basis, along with simple estate planning and deeds into trusts. The firm's main practice is family law and criminal defense.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateConservatorshipGuardianship

1-808-727-2150

Wailea Law LLLC

34 Wailea Gateway Place, Suite A102, Kihei, HI 96753

Serves Maui from South Maui, handling estates for local families and for heirs on the mainland or abroad. Handles formal and informal probate, intestate probate, estate administration for residents and non-residents, ancillary probate, and asset distribution and closing of estates, coordinating remotely so out-of-state families need not travel. The firm does not handle disputes or litigation.

Since 2023Serves 1 countyFree consultationEstate PlanningProbate

1-808-463-5288

Probate in Maui County

Probate Court Record

Maui County Second Circuit Court

Maui County · 2nd Circuit

Phone

1-808-244-2706

Hours

Monday-Friday 7:45 AM-4:30 PM (except state holidays)

Office

Hoapili Hale, 2145 Main Street, Suite 106, Wailuku, HI 96793-1679

Website

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E-filing

Required for attorneys

Filing in person

Walk-ins accepted

Self-represented filing

Allowed

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Estate Law Firms Serving Maui County

Bickerton Law Group LLLP

745 Fort Street, Suite 801, Honolulu, HI 96813

Serves all four Hawaii counties from a Honolulu office on Fort Street. Represents parties in probate and trust litigation, including will and trust contests based on undue influence or lack of capacity, disputes among beneficiaries over shares and distributions, and claims against trustees and personal representatives for mismanagement, improper fees, or self-dealing. The firm's page also addresses challenges involving no-contest clauses.

Since 1989Serves 4 countiesProbate LitigationTrust Disputes

1-808-599-3811

Reese & Van Atta LLC

1003 Bishop Street, Suite 2550, Honolulu, HI 96813

Serves Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii Island from downtown Honolulu. Guides personal representatives through probate filings, creditor payments, and distributions, handles small estate procedures, and advises trustees on fiduciary duties, asset management, and distribution in trust administration. Practicing in Hawaii for over 35 years.

Serves 4 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-536-2800

David A. Bernstein, A Law Corporation

345 Queen Street, Suite 600, Honolulu, HI 96813

Serves clients statewide from a Honolulu office, with additional offices listed on Kauai, Maui, Hilo, and Kona. The firm guides personal representatives through probate and represents trustees in trust administration, including inventorying assets, paying debts and taxes, preparing accountings and trust tax returns, and distributing to beneficiaries. A free 15-minute phone consultation is offered.

Solo PracticeServes the whole stateFree consultationEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbate

1-808-533-3243

Law Offices of Eric S.T. Young, ALC

55 Merchant Street, Suite 3000, Honolulu, HI 96813

Serves clients throughout Hawaii from Harbor Court in downtown Honolulu. Handles trust, probate, and conservatorship administration and litigation, dispute resolution, and estate planning. A solo practice focused on trusts and estates since 1992; the attorney is an ACTEC Fellow and serves on the Judiciary's Uniform Probate Code and Probate Court Practices Committee.

Solo PracticeServes the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationConservatorshipGuardianship

1-808-427-1406

Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP

999 Bishop Street, Suite 1600, Honolulu, HI 96813

Serves clients from a Honolulu office at 999 Bishop Street. Its trusts and estates group represents personal representatives and trustees in probate and trust administration, counsels families and fiduciaries on post-death planning such as disclaimers and tax elections, handles will and trust contests and fiduciary litigation, and represents fiduciaries in estate tax audits.

Since 1878Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationGuardianshipAsset Protection

1-808-547-5600

Hastings, Laun & Houser LLLC

65-1230 Mamalahoa Highway, Suite B20, Kamuela, HI 96743

Serves Hawaii Island from offices in Waimea and Kailua-Kona, with attorneys who visit Maui and Oahu and handle cases statewide. Handles probate administration, trust administration, and estate and trust litigation including will contests and breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases. Home visits are available on each island on request.

Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateTrust LitigationAsset Protection+2

1-808-885-4554

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Hawaii

Free Hawaii forms to plan or settle an estate: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed and the probate forms. Prepare each form for Hawaii.

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Revocable Living Trust

Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.

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Last Will and Testament

In Hawaii, a will is signed before 2 witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimony.

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

Hawaii allows a choice for a healthcare power of attorney: 2 witnesses or a notary.

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Financial Power of Attorney

Hawaii treats a power of attorney as durable by default, and it is signed with no witness or notary requirement.

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Pour-Over Will

In Hawaii, a pour-over will is signed before 2 witnesses and moves anything left outside the trust into it through probate.

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Transfer on Death Deed

In Hawaii, a transfer on death deed is signed before a notary, then recorded with the county before the owner's death. Hawaii does not recognize a Lady Bird deed.

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Hawaii

Free calculators and checklists to plan or settle an estate in Hawaii: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay and taxes. Run each tool for Hawaii.

Trust or Will: Which Costs Less?

In Hawaii, a will-based plan pays probate attorney fees of typically 2.3% to 3.6% of the estate; a funded revocable trust keeps those assets out of probate and off that fee.

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Do I Need a Revocable Trust?

Probate in Hawaii takes 6 months to 9 months for a simple estate and charges attorney fees of typically 2.3% to 3.6% of the estate; assets held in a revocable trust skip both.

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How Much Does Probate Cost?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in Hawaii costs an estimated $28,206. Attorney fees run 2.3% to 3.6% of the estate under a reasonable-compensation standard.

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What Are the Estate Laws in My State?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in Hawaii costs an estimated $28,206 and takes 6 months to 9 months for a simple estate, with attorney fees of typically 2.3% to 3.6% of the estate. Estates under $100,000 can use a small-estate procedure instead.

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How Do I Settle an Estate?

Settling an estate in Hawaii: the personal representative files the estate inventory within 90 days of appointment; creditors have 4 months to present claims; a simple estate closes in 6 months to 9 months.

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What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable trust in Hawaii runs $3,900 to $5,850 and a simple will $1,218 to $2,436, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

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Estate Attorneys in Maui County, Hawaii

Probate in Maui County

Maui County Second Circuit Court

Estate Law Firms Serving Maui County

Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Hawaii

Revocable Living Trust

Last Will and Testament

Healthcare Power of Attorney

Financial Power of Attorney

Pour-Over Will

Transfer on Death Deed

Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Hawaii

Trust or Will: Which Costs Less?

Do I Need a Revocable Trust?

How Much Does Probate Cost?

What Are the Estate Laws in My State?

How Do I Settle an Estate?

What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

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Estate Attorneys in Maui County, Hawaii