Recognition and Enforcement, Papers Filed with Order on

Motions; Judgment; Docketing; Force and Effect; Enforcement.

(a)This Section only applies where the place of the arbitration is Guam and neither the Federal Arbitration Act nor the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards apply.

(b)If the parties, in their agreement, have agreed that a judgment of the court shall be entered upon the award made pursuant to the arbitration, and shall specify the court, then at any time within one year after the award is made any party to the arbitration may apply to the court so specified for an order confirming the award, and thereupon the court must grant such an order unless the award is vacated, modified, or corrected as prescribed in Sections 42A606 and 42A701. If no court is specified in the agreement of the parties, then such application may be made to the court. Notice of the application shall be served upon the adverse party, and thereupon the Court shall have jurisdiction of such party as though he had appeared generally in the proceeding. If the adverse party is a resident of Guam, such service shall be made upon the adverse party or his attorney as prescribed by law for service of notice of motion in an action in the same court. If the adverse party shall be a nonresident, then the notice of the application shall be served COL412014 CH. 42A GUAM INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION by the marshal of any district within which the adverse party may be found in like manner as other process of the court.

(c)The party moving for an order confirming, or setting aside an award or part of an award shall, at the time such order is filed with the clerk for the entry of judgment thereof, also file the following papers with the clerk:

(1)The agreement referred to in Section 42A201 as a duly certified copy thereof; the selection or appointment, if any, of an additional arbitrator or umpire; and each written extension of the time, if any, within which to make the award.

(2)The duly authenticated original award or duly certified copy thereof.

(3)Each notice, affidavit, or other paper used upon an application to confirm, modify, or correct the award, and a copy of each order of the court upon such an application.

(d)All documents filed pursuant to this Section if not made in English, shall be filed with a duly certified translation into English.

(e)The judgment shall be docketed as if it were rendered in an action.

(f)The judgment so entered shall have the same force and effect, in all respects, as, and be subject to all the provisions of law relating to, a judgment in an action; and it may be enforced as if it had been rendered in an action in the court in which it is entered. ---------ARTICLE 8 MISCELLANEOUS ARBITRATION PROVISIONS