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5 GCA § 35613

Jurisdiction to Modify Child-Support Order of Another

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 5 — Government Operations
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State When Individual Parties Reside in this State.

(a)If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state’s child-support order in a proceeding to register that order.

(b)A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction under this Section shall apply the provisions of Articles 1 and 2, this Article, and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the proceeding for enforcement or modification. Articles 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 do not apply.

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