ARTICLE IV

 

     Section 1.  Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.  And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

 

Law Journals and Reviews

 

  Re-Evaluating the Limits of the Full Faith and Credit Clause After Baker v. General Motors Corporation.  21 UH L. Rev. 747.

  Love and Let Love:  Same-Sex Marriage, Past, Present, and Future, and the Constitutionality of DOMA.  22 UH L. Rev. 185.

  An Eight-Strand Braided Cable:  Hawaiian Tradition, Obergefell, and the Constitution Itself as "Dignity Clause".  40 UH L. Rev. 1 (2017).

 

Case Notes

 

  Divorce decrees of foreign countries.  4 U.S.D.C. Haw. 563; 252 F. Supp. 313.

  This clause inapplicable to mere commencement of action in another jurisdiction.  14 H. 80.

  Divorce.  24 H. 239.

  Finality of the judgment, whether a requisite.  40 H. 397.

  Hawaii has as much leeway to depart from foreign judgment as does state rendering it.  41 H. 246; 49 H. 273, 291, 414 P.2d 925.

  Inapplicable to right to practice law.  44 H. 26, 30, 352 P.2d 607; 44 H. 597, 598, 358 P.2d 709.

  Applicability of clause to foreign custody decrees.  49 H. 20, 407 P.2d 885.

  A divorce decree in case when defendant did not appear in person but was represented by counsel who made general appearance is entitled to full faith and credit.  51 H. 173, 454 P.2d 122.

  Basic considerations in sustaining foreign court's assumption of personal jurisdiction over nonresident and according full faith and credit to its judgment.  59 H. 272, 580 P.2d 66.

  Divorce proceedings.  1 H. App. 496, 621 P.2d 387.

  Where it was undisputed that California superior court had in personam jurisdiction over husband and wife at the time the court issued the divorce decree, the divorce decree was entitled to full faith and credit.  119 H. 212 (App.), 194 P.3d 1174.