Guam § 35313 - Costs and Fees.

§ 35313. Costs and Fees.

(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other

costs.

(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may

assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney’s fees, other

costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the

obligee and the obligee’s witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees,

costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency

of either the initiating or responding state or foreign country, except as

provided by any other law. Attorney’s fees may be taxed as costs, and

may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order

in the attorney’s own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has

priority over fees, costs, and expenses.

(c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable

attorney’s fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for

delay. In a proceeding under Article 6, a hearing is presumed to have

been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is

confirmed or enforced without change.