DHHL explains successor rules: application successor must be 18 and 50% Hawaiian; lessee successors limited to defined classes

Jim, DHHL operations manager overseeing district offices, reviewed successorship rules and the difference between a successor to an application and a successor to a lease. "The successor to your application rights needs to be 18 years of age and 50% Hawaiian," he told attendees, noting that the application-successor standard mirrors applicant eligibility.

On the lessee side, Jim said a lessee can name a spouse, child, grandchild or sibling (at 25% share); eligible 50% successors include parents and certain other relatives. He described the department's notification practice for lessees who die without a named successor: DHHL will publish notice in newspapers of general circulation and qualified relatives must submit a claim within 120 days of first publication.