5 GCA § 34129
Order Reduced to Judgment
View official PDF ↗Whenever the Superior Court makes a finding that an obligor is delinquent in child support payments and incorporates that finding in an order, the order shall be automatically reduced to judgment. That judgment shall be entered and enforceable in accordance with Chapters VII and IX of the Code of Civil Procedure as well as any other relevant parts thereof. The Child Support Enforcement Office may enforce such a judgment on behalf of any child it is otherwise authorized to represent or on behalf of the Department of Public Health and Social Services if there has been an assignment of support rights.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 18-17 § 25 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2012 Guam 18 — Zerlyn V. Palomo, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Roque L. Manglona, Defendant-Appellee (2012) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶48
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.