HRS §571-47
Determining who a child's parents are when the child was born to married parents
In a court case about a child's custody or support, if someone questions whether the married parents are the real parents, the court can decide that issue. The court must appoint a lawyer for the child, and can make the parties pay that lawyer's fees. If the child is not added to the case, the court's decision about parentage does not bind the child.
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The statute, as written — Determination of parentage of child born in wedlock
Whenever, in any action involving the custody or support of a child apparently born in lawful wedlock, the parentage of the child is placed in issue, the court may make the child a party to the action, if not already a party, and shall thereupon determine the parentage of the child as one of the issues in the action. The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the interests of the child and may assess the reasonable fees and expenses of the guardian ad litem as costs of the action, payable in whole or in part by any or all parties as the circumstances may justify. In the event the child is not made a party to the action, a determination that the child was not born to parents married to each other at the time of the child's birth shall not be binding upon the child.
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