(a) Any party, including the agency, who is aggrieved by a final decision and order in a contested case or by a preliminary ruling of the nature that deferral of review pending entry of a subsequent final decision would deprive appellant of adequate relief is entitled to judicial review under chapter 91.

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-13

  • Administrative order: means the order resulting from an administrative adjudication by a hearings officer or the attorney general, through the agency, of the final disposition of a matter before the agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
  • Agency: means the child support enforcement agency established by section 576D-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Court: means the family courts of this State and, when the context requires, a court or agency of any other state having jurisdiction to establish, modify, and enforce support obligations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
  • Hearings officer: means a public official appointed and commissioned pursuant to § 576E-10. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
  • Party: means each person or agency named or admitted as a party, or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party, including but not limited to the custodial parent and the responsible parent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
(b) Proceedings for review shall be instituted in the family court of the circuit where the final decision and order was filed within thirty days after the preliminary ruling or within thirty days after service of the certified copy of the final decision and order of the hearings officer or agency. The filing of a notice of appeal shall not stay enforcement of the administrative order.
(c) The senior family court judge or senior judge may assign the hearing and disposition of such appeals to any district judge of the family court who shall exercise all of the powers conferred upon a circuit court by section 91-14.