IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF CARLSMITH

No. 27569.

151 P.3d 692 (2006)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP OF Edith M. CARLSMITH, Incapacitated Person.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

As Amended January 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Jay Green, and Howard Glickstein, Honolulu, on the briefs, for Respondent-Appellant Edith M. Carlsmith.

Stuart M. Cowan, on the briefs, for Respondent-Appellant Carl Duane Carlsmith.

Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Rhonda L. Griswold, and Allison M. Mizuo (Cades Schutte, LLP), on the briefs, Honolulu, for Petitioner-Appellee Cynthia Carlsmith Crespi.

Russell Suzuki and Adina Kobayashi Cunningham, Deputy Attorneys General, on the briefs, for amicus curiae State of Hawai`i.

MOON, C.J., LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA, ACOBA, and DUFFY, JJ.


Opinion of the Court by ACOBA, J.

We hold, in this appeal by Respondents-Appellants Edith M. Carlsmith (Edith) and Carl Duane Carlsmith (Duane) [collectively Respondents], from the September 26, 2005 order granting in part and denying in part the motion of Petitioner-Appellee Cynthia Carlsmith-Crespi (Cynthia) for attorney's fees and sanctions (order) of the family court of the first circuit (the court)1, and its September 26, 2005 judgment...

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