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REZENTES v. REZENTES

No. 20866.

965 P.2d 133 (1998)

88 Hawai`i 200

Heidi-Lynn K.M. REZENTES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wallace G. REZENTES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

August 12, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calvin K. Murashige (Shiraishi & Murashige), Lihue, on the briefs for defendant-appellant.

Lyle S. Hosoda and Mary H.Y. Bahng (Perkin & Hosoda), Honolulu, on the brief for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BURNS, C.J., ACOBA, and KIRIMITSU, JJ.

ACOBA, Judge.

We hold that the family court of the fifth circuit (the family court) was correctly guided by Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 703-309(1) (1993) pertaining to permissible use of force by a parent, in determining whether force used in disciplining children constituted "family violence" under HRS § 571-46(9) (1993), one of the provisions which relates to child custody. Similarly, in our view, the definition...

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