Commitment to Jail for Contempt, or to Prison. Whenever a personal representative is committed to jail for contempt in disobeying an order of any court in the territory of Guam, and has remained in custody for thirty (30) calendar days without obeying such order or otherwise purging himself of the contempt, or whenever a personal representative is convicted of any crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in any penal institution, the execution of which sentence of imprisonment is not suspended, the Superior Court of Guam may, by order reciting the facts, and without further showing or notice, revoke his letters and grant letters to some other competent person entitled thereto as personal representative in his stead. SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 526; Guam Law Revision Commission. COMMENT: Under § 526 of the Probate Code of Guam (1970), the only grounds for revocation was the personal representative's commitment to jail for contempt of court. The Commission has added the provision concerning revocation of letters for the personal representative's confinement in prison for the conviction of any crime.
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