CAMERLINGO v. CAMERLINGO

No. 20775.

961 P.2d 1162 (1998)

88 Hawai'i 68

Lori Jean H. CAMERLINGO, nka Lori Jean H. Kim, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kirk CAMERLINGO, Defendant-Appellee, and Dorothy Camer, Intervenor-Appellant.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

July 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Camer, intervenor-appellant, pro se, on the briefs.

Steven J. Kim, Lynch & Farmer, on the brief, Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

John W. Schmidtke, Jr., on the brief, Honolulu, for defendant-appellee.

Before WATANABE, ACOBA and KIRIMITSU, JJ.


ACOBA, Judge.

We hold that Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 571-46(7) (1993) does not mandate a court, upon a grandparent's request, to award the grandparent rights of visitation with his or her grandchild. Instead, HRS § 571-46(7) generally leaves the issue of "[r]easonable visitation rights" of grandparents to "the discretion of the court," while precluding the award of such rights if "it is shown that rights of visitation are detrimental to the best interests...

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