Restraining Orders

You can file an order for protection against a family or household member who has committed acts of domestic abuse against you or your minor child.  A family or household member includes:

• your current or former spouse;
• your current or former reciprocal beneficiary,¹ which is someone who you have significant personal, emotional, and economic relationships with, but are prohibited from legally marrying.²  (To see the requirements of becoming reciprocal beneficiaries, go to our HI Statutes page);
• someone with whom you have a child in common;
• your parent;
• your child;
• someone related to you by blood or marriage;
• someone with whom you live/lived (Note: This does not include adults who lived together as roommates or who were cohabitants only for economic reasons or due to a contract (e.g., a lease)); and/or
• someone who you are dating or used to date.¹

¹ HRS § 586-1
² HRS § 572C-2