Hawaii Adoption Laws Page1

Adoption Laws in Hawaii Page1

About adoption consent

• Who have to consent to the adoption : Statute : - § 578-2(a)
  • A birth father
  • Anybody individually or any agency with a licensed permission
  • The court
  • Mother of adoptee
  • Legal father of the adoptee

• Age required of an adoptee to consent : Statute : - § 578-2(a)(8)

  • Any child of the age 10 years or more than it have to consent for adoption.

• No need of parental consent: Statute : - § 578-2(c)
  • If a parent deserted child at max for 90 days.
  • If a parent surrendered to care the child voluntarily to any one else more than or for 2 years.
  • If a parent failed to contact the child for a year continuously.
  • If a parent had already terminated their parental rights
  • If a parent proved and found retarded mentally.

• Execution of consent: Statute: - § 571-61
  • In case of pregnancy the consent can also be given in 6th month of the pregnancy, only the thing is judgment can apply only after the child birth.

• Consent execution is must: Statute: - § 578-8
  • No adoption decree get a grant without a hearing and at the time of the hearing, who wants to consent have to be present.

• Consent revocation : Statute: - § 578-2(f)

  • After the child birth it is not possible to withdraw a consent, placed with future adoptive parents, until the court came to know it is with the interest of the child.