of the same performance when each of them, individually, has the duty of fully performing the obligation[.]” Id. at 837. HRS § 483-1 (1993) states that “[sjeveral obligors means obligors severally bound for the same performance.” Similarly, the Introductory Note of Chapter 13 of Restatement (Second) of Contracts states that “[tjhis Chapter deals with the rights and duties created by multiple promises of the same performance^]” Restatement (Second) of Contracts, Chapter 13, introductory note. In contrast, a guarantor does not promise the “same performance” as the prin cipal debtor. While a principal debtor promises to pay a specified amount, a guarantor promises to pay that amount only if it cannot be collected from the principal debtor. See Schweitzer v. Fishel, 13 Haw. 690, 693 (1901) (<HOLDING>). A “contract of guaranty is an enforceable
holding that the court was not bound by the parties agreement that contracts were unambiguous and holding that contracts were ambiguous recognizing that where liability is joint and several among multiple parties complete relief may be granted with respect to any one of them holding that a suit against one insurance company was not compulsory as related to a suit against another insurance company because even though they were the result of the same event  a hurricane strike  they were two different parties with two different policies holding that provisions concerning joint custody and healthcare of the parties child were consistent with the signed notes holding a guarantor and principal debtor were not joint and several obligors they were severally parties to different contracts with the plaintiffs