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7 GCA § 14110

Jurisdiction over Nonresident Defendants in Cases Affecting

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 7 — Judiciary and Civil Procedure
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Parent-Child Relationships. In a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, the courts may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person on whom service of citation is required or over the person's personal representative, although the person is not a resident or domiciliary of this Territory, if:

(a)the child was conceived in Guam and the person on whom service is required is a parent or an alleged or probable father of the child;

(b)the child resides in Guam as a result of the acts or directives or with the approval of the person on whom service is required;

(c)the person on whom service is required has resided with the child in Guam; or

(d)notwithstanding items (a), (b), or

(c)of this section, there is any basis consistent with the Organic Act or Constitution of the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

§ The story of this section

  1. Enacted by P.L. 18-17 § 46 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)

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