Guam Code — 19
Browse 422 sections in division 19 of the Guam code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1102. Minority, How Calculated.
- § 1103. Adults, Who Are.
- § 1104. Unborn Child.
- § 1105. Custody of Minors.
- § 1106. Minors Cannot Delegate.
- § 1107. Minors’ Contracts; Disaffirmed.
- § 1108. Minor’s Time, Disaffirmance.
- § 1109. Minors Liable for Necessaries; Services, When.
- § 1110. Certain Obligations.
- § 1111. Legal Capacity of Minor Regarding Medical Care.
- § 1112. Contracts by Person Without Understanding.
- § 1113. By Persons of Unsound Mind.
- § 1114. Powers of Persons Whose Incapacity Has Been Adjudged.
- § 1115. Minors Liable for Wrongs, but Not for Exemplary Damages.
- § 1116. Minors May Sue.
- § 2102. Defamation, What.
- § 2103. Libel, What.
- § 2104. Slander, What.
- § 2105. Privileged Communications.
- § 2106. Malice Not Inferred.
- § 2107. Personal Relations.
- § 2108. Right to Use Force.
- § 2109. Personal Rights.
- § 2110. Same: Violation.
- § 2111. Amusements, Admittance.
- § 2112. Amusements, Denial Admittance.
- § 2113. Penalty.
- § 2114. Blind Persons; Public Use of Facilities.
- § 2115. Same: Rights.
- § 2116. Same: Guide Dog.
- § 2117. Same: Penalty for Interference With Blind.
- § 2118. Same: Negligence.
- § 2119. Same: Definition.
- § 3102. Minors.
- § 3103. How Manifested and Proved.
- § 3104. Incompetency of Parties.
- § 3105. Illegal and Void Marriages.
- § 3106. Release, Generally.
- § 3107. Marriages Outside of Guam.
- § 3108. Choices of Name Upon Marriage.
- § 3109. Same: Exclusive Election.
- § 3203. Marriage Certificate.
- § 3205. Obligatory Upon Judge, the Director of Revenue and Taxation
- § 3209. Issuance of Certified Copies of Certificate and License to
- § 3201. Marriages, Procedure.
- § 3202. Marriage Licenses.
- § 3203. Marriage Certificate.
- § 3204. Who May Solemnize.
- § 3205. Obligatory Upon Judge, the Director of Revenue and Taxation,
- § 3206. Particular Form Not Necessary.
- § 3207. Requirements, Solemnizing.
- § 3208. Marriage Certificates.
- § 3209. Issuance of Certified Copies of Certificate and License to
- § 3210. Declaration Where no Record.
- § 3211. Acknowledged and Recorded.
- § 3212. Actions to Determine Validity.
- § 3301. Void Marriages.
- § 4102. Same; Out of Wedlock.
- § 4103. Who May Dispute.
- § 4104. Parent’s Obligation to Children.
- § 4105. Support.
- § 4105. Payments for Disabled Children and for Education.
- § 4106. Custody.
- § 4107. Living Separate; Rights Are Equal.
- § 4108. Exclusive Control, Decree Of.
- § 4109. Custody; Illegitimate Child.
- § 4110. Allowance to Parent.
- § 4111. Control of Child’s Property.
- § 4112. Remedy; Parental Abuse.
- § 4113. Parental Authority.
- § 4114. Deceased Parent’s Estate; Child’s Support.
- § 4115. Reciprocal Duty: Parents and Children.
- § 4116. Parent’s Liability For Necessaries of Child.
- § 4117. Same; Non-liability.
- § 4118. Stepchildren; Husband Not Liable.
- § 4119. Parents Supporting; Compensation.
- § 4120. Relinquishment of Custody and Services to Child.
- § 4121. Minor’ s Wages.
- § 4122. Child’s Residence Follows Parent.
- § 4123. Wife Living Separate; Minor Children.
- § 4124. Legitimation of Children.
- § 4125. Birth Record.
- § 4126. Same; Duty to Record.
- § 4221. Special Provisions.
- § 221. -230; § 222 as amended by P.L. 12-051 (Nov. 9, 1973) and § 224 as
- § 4201. Purposes.
- § 4202. Definitions.
- § 4203. Who May Adopt.
- § 4204. Prerequisite to Petition.
- § 4205. Petition.
- § 4206. Consent.
- § 4207. Same: Filing.
- § 4208. Same: Withdrawal.
- § 4209. Notice: Service.
- § 4210. Social Study.
- § 4211. Residence Requirement.
- § 4212. Hearing Procedure.
- § 4213. Decree.
- § 4214. Same: Effect.
- § 4215. Withdrawal or Denial of Petition.
- § 4216. Abatement.
- § 4217. Records.
- § 4218. Invalidation.
- § 4219. Subsequent Adoption.
- § 4220. Decrees of Other Jurisdictions.
- § 4221. Special Provisions.
- § 4313. Termination Decrees of Other States.
- § 4301. Purpose.
- § 4302. Definitions.
- § 4303. Petition, Grounds.
- § 4304. Same: Contents.
- § 4305. Notice.
- § 4306. Guardian Ad Litem.
- § 4307. Social Study Prior to Disposition.
- § 4308. Hearing.
- § 4309. Decree.
- § 4310. Effect of Decree.
- § 4311. Court Costs.
- § 4312. Records.
- § 4313. Termination Decrees of Other States.
- § 4401. Action to Determine Parental Relation.
- § 5102. Definitions.
- § 5103. Jurisdiction.
- § 5104. Transfer of Cases When Defendant a Minor.
- § 5105. Continuing Jurisdiction.
- § 5106. Certification for Criminal Proceedings.
- § 5107. Petition to Court to Act; Contents.
- § 5108. Summons Issued to Bring Child Into Court.
- § 5109. Summons; Service.
- § 5110. Warrant Issued If Summons Disobeyed.
- § 5111. Custody: Provisions Governing.
- § 5112. Hearings.
- § 5113. Referees in the Family Division.
- § 5114. Decrees and Orders of Court.
- § 5115. Awarding Custody.
- § 5116. Support of Child in Custody.
- § 5117. Jurisdiction Over Adults.
- § 5118. Procedure for Prosecution of Adults.
- § 5119. Permanent Custody.
- § 5107. of this Chapter, it shall appear to the court that the parents
- § 5120. Penalties for Violation by an Adult.
- § 5121. Fees Not to be Charged.
- § 5122. Records.
- § 5123. Limited Disclosure of Records.
- § 5124. Sealing and Destruction of Records.
- § 5125. Appeals.
- § 5126. Assistance to Court by Public and Private Bodies.
- § 5127. Juvenile Conference Committee.
- § 5128. Fingerprints and Photographing.
- § 5129. Construction of this Chapter.
- § 5130. Appropriations Authorized.
- § 5131. Repealer.
- § 5132. Effective Date.
- § 5103. , regardless of when commenced, provided that this act
- § 5133. Title.
- § 5134. Balanced Approach and Restorative Justice Goals
- § 6102. Definition of Separate and Community Debts.
- § 6103. Priorities for Satisfaction of Separate Debts.
- § 6104. Priorities for Satisfaction of Community Debts.
- § 6105. Presumption of Community Property: Presumption of Separate
- § 6106. Transfers, Conveyances, Encumbrances and Leases of Real
- § 6107. Management and Control of Community Personal Property.
- § 6108. Joinder of Minor Spouse in Conveyances, Mortgages and
- § 6109. Disposition and Management of Real Property Without Joinder
- § 6110. Judgment to be Recorded.
- § 6111. Property Relations.
- § 6112. Written Contracts Between Spouses.
- § 6113. Inventory of Separate Personal Property.
- § 6114. Tenant by Curtesy or Dower on Death of Spouse.
- § 7102. Establishment of Conciliation Jurisdiction.
- § 7102. Dissemination of ADR and Counseling Materials.
- § 7103. Source of Conciliation Services.
- § 7104. Effect of Conciliation Jurisdiction.
- § 7105. Petition for Conciliation Jurisdiction; Contents.
- § 7106. Notice; Attendance at Hearings.
- § 7107. Restriction of Services; Priorities.
- § 7108. Court Orders; Reconciliation Agreement.
- § 7109. Privacy of Hearing; Confidentiality; Closed Records.
- § 7110. Qualifications of Conciliation Counselors.
- § 7111. Court Ordered and Court Referred Conciliation or Mediation
- § 9102. Ward, What.
- § 9103. General, Special.
- § 9104. General Guardian.
- § 9105. Special Guardian.
- § 9106. By Will.
- § 9107. Insane Persons.
- § 9108. General Rules.
- § 9109. Confidential Relationship.
- § 9110. Court Control.
- § 9111. Survivor Continues, Power.
- § 9112. Removal, Generally.
- § 9113. Parent Appointment, Superseded.
- § 9114. Power, Discontinued.
- § 9115. Ward's Release.
- § 9116. Discharge.
- § 10102. Persons Who May Bind Minor With His Consent.
- § 10103. Apprenticeship, Generally.
- § 10104. Incapacity, Jury Trial.
- § 10105. Abandoned Minors Apprenticed.
- § 10106. Apprentice Kept Within Court Jurisdiction.
- § 10107. Investigation in Minors Treatment.
- § 10108. Complaints to be Heard.
- § 10109. Discharge Generally.
- § 10110. Covenant; Liability.
- § 10111. Refusal of Apprentice to do His Duty.
- § 10112. Liability Persuading Runaway.
- § 10113. Master Leaving Guam.
- § 11104. Employment Certificate.
- § 11105. Hazardous Conditions.
- § 11106. Hours of Work.
- § 11107. Access to Work Premises and Records.
- § 11108. Regulations.
- § 11109. Penalty.
- § 12101. Definitions.
- § 12102. Manner of Making Gift.
- § 12103. Effect of Gift.
- § 12104. Duties and Powers of Custodian.
- § 12105. Custodian=s Expenses, Compensation, Bond and Liabilities.
- § 12106. Exception of Third Persons from Liability.
- § 12107. Resignation, Death or Removal of Custodian; Bond;
- § 12108. Accounting by Custodian.
- § 12109. Construction.
- § 12110. Short Title.
- § 12111. Severability.
- § 13100. Short Title; Purpose; Construction.
- § 13101. Definitions.
- § 13200. Short Title; Intent and Purpose of Article.
- § 13201. Persons Required to Report Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect.
- § 13202. Any Person Permitted to Report.
- § 13203. Reporting Responsibilities.
- § 13204. Cooperative Arrangements for Investigation; Written Findings; Report.
- § 13205. Mandatory Reporting and Post-Mortem Investigation of Deaths.
- § 13206. Immunity from Liability.
- § 13207. Penalty for Failure to Report.
- § 13208. Recordkeeping Duties of Child Protective Services.
- § 13209. Duties of Child Protective Services Concerning Reports of Abuse.
- § 13209. Duties of Child Protective Services.
- § 13210. Confidentiality.
- § 13211. Regulations; Authority to Make.
- § 13212. Severability Clause.
- § 13302. Protective Custody by Police Officer, Child Protective Services Social Worker or Physician
- § 13303. Authorization for Photographs, X-rays and Radiological or Other Diagnostic Examination.
- § 13325. Payment for Service or Treatment Provided to a Party or for a Child’s Care, Support or
- § 13300. Jurisdiction.
- § 13301. Authorization for Department to Act.
- § 13301. Reasonable Efforts to Preserve and Reunify Families.
- § 13301. Circumstances Negating Requirement for Reasonable Efforts.
- § 13302. Protective Custody by Police Officer, Child Protective Services Social Worker or Physician
- § 13303. Authorization for Photographs, X-rays and Radiological or Other Diagnostic Examination.
- § 13304. Service Plan.
- § 13305. Petition.
- § 13306. Summons.
- § 13307. Service of Summons.
- § 13308. Guardian Ad Litem; Counsel.
- § 13309. Reports to be Submitted by Child Protective Services; Social Worker Expertise.
- § 13310. Evidentiary Determination; Burden of Proof.
- § 13311. Evidence May be Inadmissible in Other Actions or Proceedings; Testimony by a Child.
- § 13312. Recording a Statement or the Testimony of a Child.
- § 13313. Admissibility of Evidence.
- § 13314. Required Findings Concerning Notice Prior to a Hearing in a Child Protective Proceeding.
- § 13315. Order of Protection.
- § 13316. Temporary Foster Custody Hearing.
- § 13317. Preliminary Hearing.
- § 13318. Answering Date; Fact-Finding Hearing.
- § 13319. Sustaining or Dismissing Petition; Interim Orders.
- § 13320. Disposition Hearing.
- § 13321. Long-term Foster Custody.
- § 13322. Progress Hearings.
- § 13323. Permanency Plan.
- § 13324. Permanency Plan Hearing.
- § 13301. of this Article; or
- § 13325. Payment for Service or Treatment Provided to a Party or for a Child’s Care, Support or
- § 13326. Failure to Comply with Terms or Conditions of an Order of the Court.
- § 13327. Appeal.
- § 13328. Court Records.
- § 13329. Confidentiality.
- § 13330. Cooperation.
- § 13331. Multidisciplinary Teams.
- § 13332. Fiscal Responsibility.
- § 13333. Regulations; Authority to Make.
- § 13334. Severability Clause.
- § 13335. Effective Date.
- § 13336. Foster Children’s Bill of Rights.
- § 13337. Foster Parent’s Bill of Rights.
- § 13400. Title.
- § 13401. Task Force Composition.
- § 13402. Duties of the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children.
- § 13403. Task Force Recommendations.
- § 13404. Policies Addressing Sexual Abuse.
- § 13501. Citation.
- § 13502. General Policy.
- § 13503. Definitions.
- § 13504. Anonymity; Confidentiality; Waiver.
- § 13505. Custody.
- § 13506. Reunification.
- § 13507. Duties of Authorized Safe Haven Personnel.
- § 13508. Liability Protection.
- § 13509. Penalties for Unauthorized Disclosure.
- § 14101. Definitions.
- § 14102. Effect of Action by Petitioner or Respondent on Order.