Legal Opinion
Cox v. Cox.
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided August 16, 2016No. SCWC-12-0000762PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*478OPINION OF THE COURT BY
POLLACK, J.
The 2006 and 2016 versions of Hawai'i Family Court Rules (HFCR) Rule 68 mandate an award of costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, to a party who offers to settle certain classes of family court cases in the amount or upon the terms specified in the offer, if the offer is refused by the offeree and “the judgment in its entirety finally obtained by the offeree is patently not more favorable than the offer, unless the court shall specifically determine that such would be inequitable.”
The issue that we resolve in this case is whether Bruce Edward Cox…
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