HRS 0584-0006 ANNOTATIONS

Cross References

Sheriff, etc., see §26-14.6.

Case Notes

Limitation period. 59 H. 259, 581 P.2d 310.

A final divorce decree is not an "agreement" within the meaning of subsection (c); it constitutes a final judgment of the family court; thus, this section did not permit mother to escape the preclusive effect of the divorce decree. 99 H. 1, 52 P.3d 255.

Section does not permit the relitigation of the issue of paternity where it has already been determined in a prior proceeding. 99 H. 1, 52 P.3d 255.

Subsection (a) permitted presumed father to bring a paternity action for the purpose of declaring the nonexistence of a father and child relationship between presumed father and daughter. 9 H. App. 623, 859 P.2d 922.

Child support enforcement agency was authorized, under §§576D-3, 576D-4, and subsection (a), to bring action to establish paternity of a child, "born out of wedlock" for purposes of §576D-3(b), where mother, though married to husband at time child was born, alleged that appellant, and not husband, was child's natural father. 88 H. 159 (App.), 963 P.2d 1135.

 

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