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Legal Information: Hawaii
Laws current as of November 15, 2024 Who can get custody?
The parents of the child are entitled to have custody. If it is in the child’s best interest, someone other than the child’s mother or father can be given custody if that person:
- has been acting as the child’s caretaker (“de facto custody”);
- is in a stable and wholesome home; and
- is fit and proper.1
1 HI ST § 571-46(a)(2)
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