Rule 2 Extensions of Time

If you need more time to file something in a child protective appeal, you have to show good cause before the court will grant an extension. This applies to most deadlines under these rules, including deadlines for filing a notice of appeal or cross-appeal. If you want more time to file a request for the Hawai'i Supreme Court to review your case (a writ of certiorari), you follow a different rule, Rule 40.1 of the Hawai'i Rules of Appellate Procedure.

If you ask for an extension after your deadline has already passed, the court can fine you or your attorney unless you can show a good reason for the delay. Simply forgetting or running out of time is usually not enough.

One more important point: in these cases, you cannot use Rule 29(a) to get an automatic extension by agreement between the parties. Even if everyone in the case agrees to give someone more time, the court clerk is not allowed to accept that kind of agreement in child protective appeals. You still have to ask the court directly and show good cause.