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Custody

Laws current as of November 15, 2024

What are “residual parental rights and responsibilities”?

Residual parental rights and responsibilities are the rights and responsibilities that one of the parents continues to have after legal custody or guardianship of the child has been transferred. If you have been granted legal custody, for example, it’s possible that the other parent still has some or all of the following rights and responsibilities:

  • the right to reasonable visitation;
  • the right to consent to adoption or marriage; and
  • the responsibility to support the child.1

1 Haw. Rev. Stat. § 571-2

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