The Hawaii State family courts are the family courts in the state court system of

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...

They have

exclusive jurisdiction Exclusive jurisdiction exists in civil procedure if one court has the power to adjudicate a case to the exclusion of all other courts. The opposite situation is concurrent jurisdiction (or non-exclusive jurisdiction) in which more than one court ...

over cases involving legal minors, such as juvenile delinquency,

status offense A status offense is an action that is prohibited only to a certain class of people, and most often applied only to offenses committed by minors. In the United States, the term status offense also refers to an offense such as a traffic violati ...

s, abuse and neglect,

termination of parental rights Termination may refer to: Science * Termination (geomorphology), the period of time of relatively rapid change from cold, glacial conditions to warm interglacial condition * Termination factor, in genetics, part of the process of transcribing R ...

, adoption, guardianships and detention among others. The family courts also oversee cases of domestic relations involving

divorce Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the ...

child support Child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship. Child maintenance is paid d ...

, and custody matters.

See also