Planning with Purpose. Built for Generations.

For many families here, wealth was built slowly, over generations: a family home, a small business, years of saving. Mana Wealth exists to help protect what those generations worked so hard to build.

Mana Wealth Trust & Estate Law is the estate planning practice of Segal Law – A Hawaii Law Corporation. Legal services are provided through Segal Law by the attorney responsible for each client’s matter.

Why we started this firm

We kept meeting families in the same situation. A parent had passed. There was a will, or sometimes a trust that had been signed years earlier and never finished. The house was still titled the old way. Nobody knew where the original documents were. And the grieving family was suddenly facing a court process they did not understand, with costs nobody had planned for.

Almost none of it was necessary. In nearly every case the outcome traced back to something small that had gone undone, like a deed never recorded or a beneficiary designation never updated. The documents were fine. The follow-through was missing.

So we built a firm around the follow-through. We take the plan from the first conversation all the way through funding and completion, and we stay available afterward, because a plan that is not maintained slowly stops being a plan.

What makes planning here different

Estate planning in Hawaii differs from the mainland in a few concrete ways. Property values mean a single long-held family home can push an estate into full probate, so families of ordinary means face a process they assume applies only to the wealthy. We have two parallel recording systems, and a meaningful share of the island’s real estate sits in Land Court with its own procedures and its own timelines.

Families are spread out. Adult children live in Las Vegas, Seattle, and on the mainland West Coast, while one sibling stays near the property and carries the practical burden. And there is often land that has passed informally through the family for generations, where the recorded deed still names a grandparent or great-grandparent. That situation is common and solvable, but it gets harder every year it goes unaddressed.

A plan drafted without accounting for any of that may be technically valid and still fail the family it was written for.

How we work

We look beyond the documents. When you ask us to, our estate, legal and financial colleagues work from the same file, so the plan fits your family and your property as they are. Legal and financial services remain separate and are provided through the applicable professional practice. Then we help you follow through, from creation and signing to funding and completion. Meet the people who do that work.

We quote a flat fee before any work begins, so you know the cost up front and there are no hourly surprises. We meet in person at our Wailuku office or by video, and we work with families across every island and with relatives on the mainland.

What we believe

Generational wealth isn’t simply what someone inherits. It’s what one generation makes possible for the next. A home that stays in the family. A business that survives its founder. A next generation that starts from further along than the last one did.

That is worth protecting on purpose, and it is easier to do now, while nobody is in a hurry.