8 GCA § 161.115
Survival and Abatement
View official PDF ↗The rights of compensation created by this Chapter are personal and shall not survive the death of the person or beneficiary entitled thereto; provided, that if such death occurs after an application for compensation has been filed with the Commission, the proceeding shall not abate, but may be continued by the legal representative of the decedent’s estate.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 20-155 § 2 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 27-138 § 4 — introduced as Bill 375-27 · introduced by Carmen Fernandez
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.