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Table Talk
Undivided Interest
“Imagine ten of us inherited one family farm. Nobody owns the north field or the south field. Every one of us owns a share of the entire farm. That’s an undivided interest.”
“Why do I even need to know what an undivided interest is ?”
Because those two words appear throughout the deeds, probate records, tax records, heirship, valuation and court filling.
Knowing the term changes your ability to read your packet.
This become the foundation for understanding the pages that follow. Why this two words keep appearing in my documents?
Why it matters: Because it helps you understand what your facing.
Lady Enoka
Table talk
Heirs disagree
“If everyone owns an interest in the whole property, how do courts decide what happens when the heirs don’t agree?”
“Wait… we don’t all agree. Now what?”
“O.k what does the law say? We have a law? I’m not following ?”
Wait, what’s going on?
“The law was revised in 2021.” Now, Im really want to know!, ummmm… ok, 164 was revised to open up options for heirs to sell their interest. What we are preserving not selling…OMG!i well don’t panic, this is justifiable thinking,
“Does it help our case?”
”…Yes?”
“Then what do we do now?” Start coming into consensus!!
CHANT
ʻŌlelo Hoʻomaopopo — Chant for Clarity
E hoʻomālamalama mai i koʻu ala.
Light my path before me.
E hāʻawi mai i ka naʻauao.
Grant me wisdom.
E kūpaʻa i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo.
Help me stand firmly in truth.
E alakaʻi mai iaʻu e hoʻomaopopo i ka mea i mua oʻu.
Lead me to understand what is before me.
Lady Enoka
Answer one thought at a time instead of trying to assemble pieces scattered throughout a lengthy legal document
Next page and links will be up shortly…
table talk…side note it takes 120 days for a pumpkin to grow…Planted June 11 - September - here results …
3-Pumpkins grew
2 Pumpkin detached from the vine.
And as you can see one still attached to the vine.
The pumpkin going to cure for another 7-14 days the orange color is bright and will darken soon. This year pumpkin patch produced 3 humongous pumpkins in the back yard for harvest
Table talk
Equity
What is equity?
“Equity… what does that mean?”
“I hear people say it all the time.”
“Well, think about your family.”
“If Grandma passes away and leaves her home to her children, equity is the value each person’s ownership interest represents after debts and obligations are accounted for. It is the value tied to an ownership interest—it isn’t the same thing as the property itself.”
“So… equity isn’t just cash?”
“No. It’s the value connected to what you own.”
“Oh… now I understand.”
Next page and links will be up shortly…
Table talk
Building a Road Map
Whats the first document in my file?
let the documents guide you…
Deed
Conveyance
Certificate
Survey
Tax Map Key
Judgment
Exhibit
Attachment
Recorded
Why this matters? A paper road map depends on evidence. When every document points to the next document, your file begins to tell its own story.
Table Talk
“Why did someone sign?”
“Why would someone sign away an interest in ancestral land?“
Kupuna: “Every family has its own circumstances. Sometimes people understood the consequences. Sometimes they didn’t.”
Neighbor: “Could anything have been done differently?”
Secretary: “That’s why we preserve the documents. The record helps future generations understand the choices that were made.”
Table Talk i
iI laughed about “public confidentiality” “wait…what?”
Cousin: “I thought court records were confidential …
Secretary: “some are. But many court filings are public records.”
Neighbor: “So anybody can read them.”
Genealogist: “if they’re part of the public court record, yes. The challenge isn’t always finding them - it’s understanding what they mean.”
Table Talk
What is Conveyance??
Uncle, did you say its a transfer of an ownership interest in property from one person or entity to another.
I said how did ownership move from one person to another? well that’s another great question? because now this leads to what they call quitclaims deed.
Table Talk
Quitclaim deed?
It’s a legal document that transfers whatever ownership interest a person has, if any, to someone else.
The point transfers interest the signer has
It does not guarantee that the signer owns the property.
It does not guarantee that the title is free of other claims or liens.
One thought One Page One file
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One thought One Page One file *
Table Talk
Serious note…Next Section talks about Royal Patent
e Uncle, I just read in the paper about this one family and they have ancestral land from the Our Hawaiian Kingdom Era a Royal Patent. what is that about?What is royal patent? Wow, I hope we don't have to deal with that. Because families losing their land by developers. ummm sound like what we talking about e uncle the newspaper talking about us?
Kupuna - come on, everybody, I have something I need to say.
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Table Talk
What is a Royal Patent?
A Royal Patent in Hawaii is a formal land-title document issued under the Hawaiian Kingdom that confirms a person’s ownership of a specific piece of land.
Roll Call ummmmm who are you? oh I came with your next door neighbor cause I heard you guys going through something I can maybe help talk about what happen to my family. Aloha e komo mai…
Table Talk side note…
Mo’o came to visit as usual
Mo’o, look who is helping write the report… it was my sister’s pet… Have you ever seen someone give water to a gecko? ewwwww. Sucking on her finger, double ewwwwwww… Now, have you ever seen a mo’o turn into a person? What kind of stuff you smokin’? let’s legend this little one…
Once upon a time when Lady Enoka was young, she asked her uncle who lived on the tip of the mountain. Hey Uncle, “what’s a shape shifter” he had the biggest smile. Geeeeeeee nobody when ask me for a long time…but not any legend this the wahine she was ugly just like you uhhhhh? yeah her beauty yet a giant supernatural mo’o.
I’ll finish this story later for now back to Royal Patent.
Table Talk…Roll Call…
Table Talk…
What is a Royal Patent anyway?
Mookuauhau
A Royal Patent is part of Hawai’i’s old land title system. It is a government-issued document from the Hawaiian Kingdom confirming an award or grant of land.
Mason (uncle)…so if our land comes from a Royal Patent that means the family owns it?
Mookuauhau
it means the Royal Patent is part of the root of title-the history showing where the legal title came from.
Our land is described as Royal Patent Grant …The parcel? then why we have to go to court?
Because the Royal Patent can tell you where the title began.
It does not freeze everything forever.
What you mean, I don’t understand .
After generations pass, land can become divided among heirs. Interests can be transferred. People can die without probate being finished. Somebody can sell their share. Somebody can file quiet title somebody can ask for partition.
And suddenly the royal Patent can have dozens sometimes hundreds of descendants connected to it.
Yes that’s called hui all of us come together! Hawaiian Roots
…but the Judge don’t look at it that way the judge rule because got to much heirs this is saying our land already sold with out our consent! ummmmm let’s go over this again…
Table Talk…
How to defend a Royal Patent?
Start with the patent. Then ask: Who was it issued to? What Land Commission Award or grant sits behind it? What happened to
PAUSE
BREATH
ONE QUESTION
ONE PAGE
ONE FILE
Table Talk
Hawaiian Kingdom Royal Patent (Palapala Sila Nui)
Royal Patent identification - issuing authority…
Original patentee - Hawaiian spelling variants, heirs, relationship to the original claimant …
Land Commission Award (LCA) - claimant testimony whether the patent arose from that award…
Aina - Island, moku/district, ahupua’a, ‘ili, kuleana, and traditional places names...
Apana - Each separate parcel or portion covered by the award or patent…
Survey - survey number, surveyor, metes and bounds, traditional boundary markers… courses and distances records and archival collections may exist separately…
Boundary history - adjoining lands, neighboring awardees, natural boundaries, Boundary Commission proceedings, and later boundary certificates.
Mahele context - Where the land fits within the Mahele record, including ali’i, knohiki, Government, Crown, or kuleana interests …
Commutation/Consideration - payments or other requirements associated with insurance of the patent where documented A Royal Patent issued following an LCA generally reflects the Government relinquishing it’s remaining interest after survey and required commutation procedures…
Meet the Reverend’s Boar.
GATHERING
CHANT…
E hui pū kākou… Together we come
E hoʻolohe pū kākou… Together we listen
E hoʻomanaʻo pū kākou… Together we rememberE nānā pū i nā palapala… Together we read the record
Hoʻokahi ʻohana, nui nā leo… One family, many voices
Hoʻokahi ʻāina, nui nā hanauna… One land, many generations
ʻAʻohe mea e kū hoʻokahi… No one stands alone
ʻAʻohe mea e hāpai hoʻokahi i kēia kaumaha… No one carries this weight aloneO ka mea i hūnā ʻia, e ʻike ʻia… What was hidden, let it be seen
O ka mea i hoʻokaʻawale ʻia, e hoʻomaopopo kākou… What was divided, let us understandO ka mea i lawe ʻia, e ʻimi kākou i kona ala… What was taken, let us trace its path
O ka mea i koena, e mālama kākou… What remains, let us protectWe are here
We are listening
We are learning
We are OHANALove,
by Lady Enoka
Meeting Tonight…
Table Talk…Royal Patent
