Hawaii Revised Statutes 578. Adoption

• 578-1 Who May Adopt; Jurisdiction; Venue.
  Any proper adult person, not married, or any person married to the legal father or mother of a minor child, or a husband and...
• 578-1.5 Adoption.
  Any person may be adopted under this chapter; provided that an adult to be adopted must give written consent to the adoption. [L 1976,...
• 578-2 Consent to Adoption.
  (a) Persons required to consent to adoption. Unless consent is not required or is dispensed with under subsection (c) hereof, a petition to adopt...
• 578-3 Custody of Child Pendente Lite.
  At any stage of the proceeding subsequent to the filing of the petition and prior to the entry of a decree, the court, upon...
• 578-4 Notice to Resident Nonconsenting Legal Parent Whose Rights Have Not Been Terminated.
  If a legal parent to whom notice must be given as aforesaid is within the State, a summons issuing under the seal of the...
• 578-5 Same; Proof Of.
  A return of service of the summons shall be made by the serving officer in the manner prescribed by section 634-22, and be similarly...
• 578-6 Notice to Nonresident or Unlocated Nonconsenting Legal Parent Whose Rights Have Not Been Terminated.
  If a legal parent to whom notice must be given as aforesaid was never an inhabitant of the State, or has removed therefrom, or...
• 578-7 Substituted or Constructive Service.
  Upon the filing of the affidavit referred to in section 578-6, the court may order service of the notice prescribed in sections 578-2 and...
• 578-8 Hearing; Investigation; Decree.
  (a) No decree of adoption shall be entered unless a hearing has been held at which the petitioner or petitioners, and any legal parent...
• 578-9 Custody of Minor Child After Decree and Before Adoption.
  The decree may provide that, during the period, if any, between the entry thereof and the effective date of adoption, the care, custody, and...
• 578-10 Disposition of Minor Child on Discontinuance, Withdrawal or Denial of Petition.
  Upon the discontinuance or withdrawal or denial of any petition for adoption, the court may make appropriate temporary orders concerning the care, custody and...
• 578-11 Disposition in Case of Death of Petitioners.
  Notwithstanding the death of a petitioner or the petitioners during the pendency of the petition, the court, if it finds that the best interests...
• 578-12 Setting Aside or Modifying Decree.
  At any time within one year from the date of entry of any decree of adoption, the court may, for good cause, set aside...
• 578-13 Change of Name.
  The court may fix or change the given name and the family name of an adoptive minor child to the name stipulated by the...
• 578-14 Record of Adoption.
  (a) A certified copy of the decree of adoption, or a certified abstract thereof on a form approved by the department of health, after...
• 578-14.5 Medical Information on the Natural Parents of the Adopted Minor Child.
  (a) The department of health shall prepare a standard form entitled, "medical information form", for the purpose of perpetuating medical information on the natural...
• 578-15 Secrecy of Proceedings and Records.
  (a) The records in adoption proceedings, after the petition is filed and prior to the entry of the decree, shall be open to inspection...
• 578-16 Effect of Adoption.
  (a) A legally adopted individual shall be considered to be a natural child of the whole blood of the adopting parent or parents as...
• 578-17 Guardian Ad Litem.
  Upon a finding by the court, in any stage of a proceeding under this chapter, that the best interests of a child whose adoption...

Last modified: October 27, 2016