Hawaii Marriage Laws | § 574-1

Hawaii Revised Statutes 574-1

Names; Married persons; civil union partners.

Upon marriage or civil union, each of the parties to a marriage or partners in a civil union shall declare the middle and last names each will use as a married person or civil union partner. No person shall be required to change that person's middle or last name upon entering into a marriage or civil union. Parties to a marriage and partners in a civil union shall not be required to have the same middle or last name. Every person may adopt any middle or last name upon entering into a marriage or civil union.

[L 1860, p 32, §1; RL 1925, §3119; RL 1935, §4663; RL 1945, §12384; RL 1955, §327-1; HRS §574-1; am L 1975, c 114, §1; am L 1991, c 121, §1; am L 1993, c 346, §1; am L 2012, c 267, §13; am L 2019, c 11, §1]

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