Author: Mary Pascual, Access to Justice Tech Fellow
The Problem and the Goal
In order to terminate a marriage, parties must go through an emotional court process and file multiple forms, which may differ based on their circuit. In Hawaii, there are four different circuits. While all the circuits require basically the same forms to
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