HFCR 7.2
Rule 7.2. DOCUMENTS SEALED UPON FILING.
Cite as Haw. Fam. Ct. R. 7.2
(a) The following documents shall be sealed upon filing:
(1) Divorce-Action Information/
Matrimonial-Action Information/Civil-Union
Divorce-Action Information;
(2) Notice/Order to Withhold Income;
(3) Petition for Parentage;
(4) Hawaiʻi Parentage-Action Information;
(5) Confidential Information Sheet/
Form A;
(6) Attachment for Information on
Additional Children
(7) Birth certificate;
(8) Marriage certificate;
(9) Death certificate;
(10) DNA-testing results;
(11) Court-ordered professional evaluation;
(12) Custody Investigation and/or
Evaluation Reports;
(13) Guardian Ad Litem reports; and
(14) Kokua Kanawai reports.
The forgoing documents shall remain sealed unless otherwise ordered by the court.
(b) In addition to the forgoing, all documents filed in the following case types shall be sealed upon filing:
(1) Involuntary-Hospitalization and/or
Medication cases under HRS Chapter 334;
(2) Assisted-Community Treatment cases under HRS Chapter 334;
(3) Adoption cases under HRS Chapter 578; and
(4) Guardianship-of-a-Minor cases under HRS Chapter 560.
(Added March 30, 2022, effective April 25, 2022.)