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If you and your spouse can agree on how to divide all of your joint or sole assets and debts, then you can obtain an uncontested divorce. If you and your spouse cannot agree, then the court will need to decide for you.

6 Steps for Responding to Divorce Papers Without an Attorney Read the papers carefully. Know your deadline. File an answer. Fill out the required divorce forms. Pay your fees and file the divorce forms. Get a court order from a judge if necessary.

In Hawai'i, your answer is due at the court within 20 days after you've been served with the complaint. This packet can help you write a short answer to a divorce complaint. In your answer, you will be disagreeing or agreeing with the statements your spouse has made in the complaint for divorce.

Hawaii court records contain public information about criminal and civil cases filed in criminal, district, and circuit courts, as well as from courts that address special matters, such as land use, tax appeals, and family law matters (e.g. estate probate, divorce, births, marriages, and deaths).

It usually takes six to ten weeks after an Uncontested Divorce by Affidavit packet is submitted for judge's review, for the divorce to be final. The divorce is effective after the Divorce Decree has been approved and signed by the judge and the Divorce Decree has been filed-stamped by the court.

Divorce Case Files are accessible via our Digital Archives, Judiciary page. Case Files are arranged by Circuit Court, then by Case No. Case Nos.