CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY v. DOE

No. 23053.

53 P.3d 277 (2002)

99 Hawai`i 138

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, State of Hawai`i, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Jane DOE, Defendant-Appellant, and Jane Roe and John Roe, Defendants-Appellees.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

Certiorari Granted June 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ninia Stacia Parks for defendant-appellant (defendant-appellant, pro se, on the opening brief; and Nathan R. Brenner and Chris P. Bertelmann (law offices of Nathan R. Brenner) on the reply brief).

Rosemary McShane, Deputy Corporation Counsel, City and County of Honolulu, for petitioner-appellee (Mark G.S. Au and Amy Murakami, Deputies Corporation Counsel, with her on the brief).

John C. McLaren (Park Park Yu & Remillard) for defendants-appellees Lloyd Y. Asato, Special Administrator for the Estate of John Roe, Deceased, and Jane Roe (Arthur Y. Park and Laurent J. Remillard, Jr. with him on the brief).

BURNS, C.J., WATANABE, and FOLEY, JJ.


Opinion of the Court by WATANABE, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal1 is whether the Family Court of the First Circuit (the first circuit family court) abused its discretion when it denied a motion by Defendant-Appellant Jane Doe (Grandmother) that sought, among other relief, to: (1) set aside the paternity judgment (the Paternity Judgment) that determined, based on genetic test results stipulated into evidence by the parties, that...

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