In the Interest of Doe

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

We granted the application for a writ of certiorari, filed by the petitioner-appellee Department of Human Services (DHS), in order to review the published opinion of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) in In re Jane Doe, Born on June 20, 1995, 95 Hawai'i 201, 20 P.3d 634, (Ct.App.2000) [hereinafter, “the ICA’s opinion”]. The ICA’s opinion partially vacated the order of the family court of the first circuit, filed on July 30, 1998, and remanded for further proceedings. Among other things, the family court’s order (1) awarded permanent custody of Jane Doe…