In re P.G.

• Docket Number: CAAP-23-0000536
• Decision Date: 23 April 2024
• Parties: IN THE INTEREST OF P.G.
• Court: Hawaii Court of Appeals

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IN THE INTEREST OF P.G.

No. CAAP-23-0000536

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii

April 23, 2024

NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAI'I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER

Appeal from the Family Court of the Third Circuit (FC-S No. 22-0046)

Leonard, Acting Chief Judge, Wadsworth and McCullen, JJ.

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION

Upon review of the record, it appears that Mother-Appellant N.G. filed a self-represented^[1] appeal from a June 16, 2023 Order Concerning Child Protective Act, entered by the Family Court of the Third Circuit in FC-S No. 22-0046. The September 13, 2023 notice of appeal was filed more than thirty days after the order appealed-from, and the deadline to appeal was not tolled or extended. The notice of appeal is therefore untimely. See Hawai'i Rules of Appellate Procedure (HRAP) Rule 4(a)(1); Grattafiori v. State, 79 Hawai'i 10, 13, 897 P.2d 937, 940 (1995) ("As a general rule, compliance with the requirement of the

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timely filing of a notice of appeal is jurisdictional, . . . and we must dismiss an appeal on our motion if we lack jurisdiction." (citations & internal quotation marks omitted)); HRAP Rule 26(b) ("[N]o court or judge or justice is authorized to change the jurisdictional requirements contained in Rule 4 of these rules.").

Therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

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Notes:

^[1] Though Appellant is represented by court-appointed counsel, she filed the appeal pro se.

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