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LOPEZ v. STATE

No. SCWC-11-0000512.

328 P.3d 320 (2014)

133 Haw. 311

Patrick LOPEZ, Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of Hawai`i, Respondent/Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

February 12, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric A. Seitz, Honolulu, for petitioner.

Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry, Honolulu, for respondent.

RECKTENWALD, C.J., NAKAYAMA, and POLLACK, JJ., and Circuit Judge LEE, in place of McKENNA, J., Recused, with ACOBA, J., dissenting separately.

Opinion of the Court by RECKTENWALD, C.J.

This appeal requires us to consider whether a lien recorded by the Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) for unpaid child support has priority over an attorney's lien established for payment of fees in an unrelated, subsequently filed action. In 1997, the CSEA recorded a statutory lien on Patrick Lopez's real and personal property for delinquent child support. More than a decade later, on June 30, 2008, Lopez entered into...

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