HRS §587A-19
When a department social worker can testify as an expert
This section says that a social worker employed by the state's child protective or child welfare services is automatically considered qualified to testify as an expert in those areas. Either side in a case can ask the court to officially recognize that social worker as an expert.
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The statute, as written — Testimony by department social worker
A person employed by the department as a social worker in the area of child protective services or child welfare services shall be presumed to be qualified to testify as an expert on child protective or child welfare services. Any party may move the court to qualify a person employed by the department as a social worker in the area of child protective services or child welfare services called to testify as an expert on child protective or child welfare services.
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