GroundRules
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 577-15: Children deemed to be orphans.
Where this section sits in the code
- HI Code
- Division 3
- Title 31
- Chapter 577
For the purpose of taking, or determining eligibility to take, any benefit under any law or under any private instrument by the terms of which orphans are eligible to receive benefits, a child born to parents not married to each other and not adopted shall be deemed an orphan; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed to:
(1) Deprive any child of any rights of inheritance, any rights to support, or any other rights to which the child would be entitled; or
(2) Affect the liabilities of any other person with respect to any child to which the person would be subject if this section had not been enacted.
Collected 2026-09-14T18:32:11Z. Source file · JSON
Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text. Source · License