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19 GCA § 5102

Definitions

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 19 — Personal Relations
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When used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise required:

(a)Court means the Family Division of the Superior Court.

(b)Judge means a judge of the Superior Court sitting, either permanently or temporarily, as judge of the Family Division. COL11/29/2022 CH. 5 FAMILY COURT ACT

(c)Adult means a person eighteen

(18)years of age or older.

(d)For the purposes of § 5103(a)(4) only, a child or minor means a person less than eighteen

(18)years of age on the date legal proceedings are first commenced against him. For all other purposes, a child or minor is a person who is less than eighteen

(18)years of age.

§ The story of this section

  1. Affected by P.L. 17-12 § 2 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)

Interpreted by the courts:

  • 1997 Guam 13People of the Territory of Guam vs. Doreen Quichocho (1997) · pinpoints (d) at ¶6

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.