Source: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0578/HRS_0578-0008.htm
Timestamp: 2019-06-27 00:09:17
Document Index: 289270314

Matched Legal Cases: ['§12276', '§1', '§1', '§331', '§20', '§578', '§3', '§1', '§2', '§4', '§35', '§1', '§2', '§41', '§346']

(c) In cases where a child is adopted from a foreign country and is brought into the State, the court, in its discretion, may dispense with a hearing upon receipt of a sworn affidavit, ex-parte, from the adoptive parents requesting that the hearing be dispensed with, and upon a finding that the issues it would have reviewed have received full consideration by the country from which the child was adopted and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. [RL 1945, pt of §12276; am L 1945, c 40, pt of §1; am L 1953, c 115, pt of §1; RL 1955, §331-8; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §20; HRS §578-8; am L 1973, c 211, §3(f); am L 1976, c 194, §1(3); am L 1979, c 65, §2; gen ch 1985; am L 1987, c 339, §4; am L 1990, c 34, §35 and c 74, §1; am L 1995, c 37, §2; am L 2005, c 22, §41]
Prospective adoptive parents; standards and home studies, see §346-19.7.
Decrees and orders, see Hawaii Family Court Rules, part A(VII).
Hearings, see HFCR rule 106; intervention, see HFCR rule 24.
Decree of adoption not subject to collateral attack where court had jurisdiction of parties and subject matter. 11 H. 450 (1898); 26 H. 439 (1922); 26 H. 515 (1922).
Decree of adoption refused when petitioners not proper persons to have care and custody of child. 29 H. 238 (1926).
Appeal from decree, who may. 45 H. 69, 361 P.2d 1054 (1961).
Attorney's fees may not ordinarily be awarded in absence of statute or agreement. 56 H. 543, 544 P.2d 728 (1975).
Responsibility of department of human services discussed, where family court erred in concluding that adoption agreement, which allowed termination of foster board payments prior to completion of adoption process, violated public policy. 74 H. 409, 849 P.2d 55 (1993).
Cited: 26 H. 433 (1922); 26 H. 439 (1922); 32 H. 443, 445 (1932).