§571-11 - Jurisdiction; children.
PART II. JURISDICTION
§571-11 Jurisdiction; children. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in proceedings:
(1) Concerning any person who is alleged to have committed an act prior to achieving eighteen years of age which would constitute a violation or attempted violation of any federal, state, or local law or municipal ordinance. Regardless of where the violation occurred, jurisdiction may be taken by the court of the circuit where the person resides, is living, or is found, or in which the offense is alleged to have occurred;
(2) Concerning any child living or found within the circuit:
(A) Who is neglected as to or deprived of educational services because of the failure of any person or agency to exercise that degree of care for which it is legally responsible;
(B) Who is beyond the control of the child's parent or other custodian or whose behavior is injurious to the child's own or others' welfare;
(C) Who is neither attending school nor receiving educational services required by law whether through the child's own misbehavior or nonattendance or otherwise; or
(D) Who is in violation of curfew;
(3) To determine the custody of any child or appoint a guardian of any child;
(4) For the adoption of a person under chapter 578;
(5) For the termination of parental rights under sections 571-61 to 571-63;
(6) For judicial consent to the marriage, employment, or enlistment of a child, when such consent is required by law;
(7) For the treatment or commitment of a mentally defective, mentally retarded, or mentally ill child;
(8) Under the Interstate Compact on Juveniles under chapter 582 or the Interstate Compact for Juveniles under chapter 582D;
(9) For the protection of any child under chapter 587; and
(10) For a change of name as provided in section 574-5(a)(2)(C). [L 1965, c 232, pt of §1; Supp, §333-8; HRS §571-11; am L 1970, c 81, §1; am L 1972, c 2, pt of §33; am L 1976, c 85, §4; am L 1980, c 303, §7(1); am L 1983, c 171, §2; am L 1986, c 250, §3; am L 2004, c 161, §36; am L 2009, c 93, §2]
Revision Note
Section "574-5(a)(2)(C)" substituted for "574(a)(2)(C)".
Cross References
Children under twelve, see §571-44.
Commitment, see chapters 333F and 334.
Determination of custody, see §§571-46, 46.1.
Guardianship, see chapter 560, article V.
Waiver of jurisdiction, see §571-22.
Rules of Court
Applicability of Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure, see HRCP rules 1, 81; applicability of Hawaii Rules of Penal Procedure, see HRPP rules 1, 54.
Proceedings, see Hawaii Family Court Rules, part D.
Law Journals and Reviews
Limits of Family Court Jurisdiction Under Section 571-11(2) of the Hawaii Revised Statutes. 10 HBJ 41.
Case Notes
Jurisdiction, custody of children. 49 H. 20, 29-31, 407 P.2d 885.
Child's right to support in action against parent. 49 H. 200, 412 P.2d 638.
Family court has jurisdiction to determine custodial and visitation rights of the natural father of illegitimate child. 56 H. 462, 541 P.2d 13.
Court retains "exclusive original jurisdiction" where jurisdiction is not validly waived. 61 H. 185, 599 P.2d 298.
Section 571-48 applies only to minors actually adjudicated under this section, and placement of a minor, prior to adjudication, is dealt with under §571-32. 84 H. 41, 928 P.2d 883.
The family court may adjudicate and punish status offenders under paragraph (1) for criminal contempt based on violations of court orders of protective supervision, provided the minor is given sufficient notice to comply, the court considers less restrictive alternatives, and contact between the status offender and juvenile delinquents convicted of other crimes are kept to a minimum. 96 H. 73, 26 P.3d 562.
As claim that health department was legally obligated to pay for child's services at private residential treatment center arose under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and child did not pursue the remedies available under the federal act to establish health department's obligation to pay for the services, family court lacked jurisdiction to order the department to pay for the services. 96 H. 272, 30 P.3d 878.
Although the reconsideration provision of §571-54 for the right to appeal an order or decree entered in a proceeding based on paragraph (1), (2), (6), or (9) is conditioned upon the filing of a timely motion for reconsideration, and prosecution appealed without filing such a motion, where motion to suppress, opposing memorandum, transcript and order appeared to be parties' and family court's complete record of suppression matter and neither party asserted on appeal that §571-54 had been violated, appellate court chose to address merits of appeal. 104 H. 403, 91 P.3d 485.
As district family court proceedings under paragraph (1) concerning juvenile law violators are considered to be noncriminal proceedings, prosecution's appeal of family court order was not authorized by §641-13(7). 104 H. 403, 91 P.3d 485.
The district family courts lack subject matter jurisdiction, under any circumstances, to order the department of education to alter a child's grade placement. 105 H. 38, 93 P.3d 1145.
No reversible error is committed where the family court employs rules from the HRPP in adjudicating §571-11(1) proceedings, if the otherwise correct use of such rules does not conflict with judicial administration of chapter 571 and is not unfairly prejudicial to minor(s) involved. 79 H. 265 (App.), 900 P.2d 1332.
A family court may exercise jurisdiction over a child in a paragraph (3) divorce case while a paragraph (9) case involving the same child is on appeal. 81 H. 91 (App.), 912 P.2d 588.
While a family court has jurisdiction over custody of two children in a paragraph (9) case, a family court may also assert jurisdiction over the custody of those same children in a paragraph (3) divorce case. 81 H. 91 (App.), 912 P.2d 588.
Family court properly exercised jurisdiction over person alleged to have committed acts which would have constituted violations of state law before person was eighteen years old. 86 H. 517 (App.), 950 P.2d 701.
Minor was properly adjudicated a law violator in a criminal contempt proceeding for failing to comply with rules of a protective supervision order. 96 H. 255 (App.), 30 P.3d 269.
Family court orders assessing father's attorney fees and costs against mother were orders entered in a proceeding based upon paragraph (9) that fell within the ambit of §571-54 and were expressly excluded by the Hawaii family court rules, rule 59(e) from its ambit. 113 H. 478 (App.), 155 P.3d 661.