HRS §571-97
Letting someone else visit your child while you are deployed
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If you are a parent being deployed, you can ask the court to let a family member or someone you live with or are married to visit your child while you are away. The court will only allow this if it is best for the child and that person already has a close relationship with the child. This permission does not give that person any permanent rights.
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The statute, as written — Delegation of the deployed parent's contact rights to another
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Upon motion of the deploying parent and consistent with the best interest of the child, including safety considerations in cases involving a finding of domestic violence, the court may delegate the deploying parent's parent-child contact rights, or a portion thereof, to a family member, whether biological or by adoption, or to a person to whom the deploying parent is married or with whom the deploying parent cohabitates; provided that the family member or person has an existing close and substantial relationship with the child. (b) Any delegated parent-child contact under this section shall not create separate rights of or standing to assert any rights to parent-child contact or any other contact for the family member or person. Any parent-child contact delegated under this section shall cease pursuant to court order, upon the return of the deployed parent, or upon the deployed parent's death.
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