HRS § 560:2-114 Parent

LibraryHawaii Statutes
Edition2023
CurrencyCurrent through 2023 Legislative Session
Year2023
CitationHRS § 560:2-114

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), for purposes of intestate succession by, through, or from a person, an individual is the child of the child's natural parents, regardless of their marital status. The parent and child relationship may be established under chapter 584.

(b) An adopted individual is the child of the child's adopting parent or parents and not of the child's natural parents, except that:

(1) Adoption of a child by the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary of either natural parent has no effect on:

(A) The relationship between the child and that natural parent; or

(B) The right of the child or a descendant of the child to inherit from or through the other natural parent; and

(2) Adoption of a child during such child's minority by the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary of a natural parent of the child, by a natural grandparent, aunt, uncle, or sibling of the child or the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary of a natural grandparent, aunt, uncle, or sibling of the child has no effect on the relationship between the child and either natural parent, for the limited purpose of interpretation or construction of a disposition in any will, trust, or other lifetime instrument, whether executed before or after the order of adoption, and for the purposes of determining the heirs at law of a natural family member of the child.

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