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DHHL staff explain successorship and transfer rules for project lessees
Summary
DHHL district staff and the district supervisor explained how beneficiaries can name successors under Hawaii Administrative Rules 10-3-63, the 120-day publication/claim procedure if a lessee dies without a designee, and that project-lessee interests can be transferred during life to qualified relatives (25% or 50% Hawaiian blood quantum depending on relation).
Erna, identified in the session as the district supervisor, led a step-by-step explanation of successorship and transfers for homestead leases. She cited Hawaii Administrative Rules 10-3-63 when describing who can succeed to a lease if a lessee dies without designating a successor, and she outlined the department’s publication routine and the 120-day claim period beneficiaries must watch for.
"So naming a successor... one of your rights is the power to determine in compliance with the law who will succeed to your homestead lease," Erna said, and she explained eligible relatives at 25% and 50% Hawaiian blood quantum and the publication/claim window that follows an un‑designated death. She also explained the difference between succession (post‑death transfer) and transfers during life: a project lessee may elect to transfer a lease interest to qualifying relatives (including partial transfers) and that transferees will be subject to separate financial assessments and occupancy requirements.
Staff clarified additional operational details in question-and-answer exchanges: transfers typically require recorded lease documents and chair signatures and may take several weeks to process; transferees must meet age and qualification rules (for example, a transferee must be at least 18 to accept a transfer), and a former lessee may return to the application list but will be served after applicants who have never received a lease.
