Title 15 — Estates and Probate
51 chapters · 695 sections in this title.
15 GCA § 1801 Administrators Must Have Same Qualifications as Executors
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(a) No person is competent to serve as an administrator who has not the qualifications required of an executor pursuant to the provisions of Section 1701 of this Title. (b) The letters of any natural person appointed to serve as an administrator may, in the discretion of the Supe…
15 GCA § 1803 Surviving Partner Not to be Administrator If Any Interested
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Person Objects to Appointment. The surviving partner of a decedent must not be appointed administrator of the estate if any person interested in the estate objects to such surviving partner's appointment. SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 421.
15 GCA § 1805 Priority of Persons Entitled to Letters of Administration
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(a) Letters of administration of the estate of a person dying intestate must be granted to one or more of the following persons, if competent under the provisions of Section 1801 of this Title, who are entitled to letters of administration, upon proper petition therefor, in the f…
15 GCA § 1807 Letters of Administration May Be Granted to Nominee of
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One Entitled; Priority of Nominees; Procedure for Nomination. Letters of administration may be granted to one or more competent persons, although not otherwise entitled to the same, at the written request of the person entitled or of a child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister…
15 GCA § 1809 Discretion of Court to Grant Letters of Administration to
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Guardian of Minor or Incompetent, or to Other Person. If a person otherwise entitled to a grant of letters of administration is a minor or an incompetent person, letters of administration may be granted to his guardian, or to any other person entitled to a grant of letters of adm…
15 GCA § 1811 Essential Contents of Petition for Letters of Administration;
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Incorrect Statement of Jurisdictional Facts No Bar to Jurisdiction. (a) A petition for letters of administration must be in writing, signed by the petitioner or the petitioner's counsel, and filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam, and must state: (1) The jurisdictiona…
15 GCA § 1813 Notice of Hearing on Petition for Letters of Administration
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When a petition for letters of administration is filed, the Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam shall set the same for hearing by the Superior COL120106 Ch. 18 APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATORS Court of Guam upon some day not fewer than twenty (20) and not more than thirty (30) calen…
15 GCA § 1815 Service of Notice of Petition for Letters of Administration
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Upon Heirs; Manner of Service; Service by Mail. At least ten (10) calendar days before the hearing on a petition for letters of administration, a copy of the notice of such hearing shall be served upon each heir of the decedent named in the petition, as follows: (a) Personally, s…
15 GCA § 1817 Facts to be Proved at Hearing on Petition for Letters of
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Administration; Compelling Witnesses' Attendance; Contest of Petition; Grounds Counterpetition; Notice; Combined Hearings. (a) Before letters of administration are granted in the first instance, the fact of death and that the decedent died intestate, and that due notice of the he…
15 GCA § 1819 Provisions of Sections 1709 through 1715 Applicable to
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Administrators. The provisions of Sections 1709, 1711, 1713 and 1715 of this Title shall apply to administrators with the same force and effect as those provisions apply to executors. SOURCE: Guam Law Revision Commission. COMMENT: It is the Commission's intention that the same pr…
15 GCA § 1821 Provisions of This Chapter Do Not Provide Exclusive
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Manner of Appointment of Administrator. Notwithstanding any provision of this Chapter, the Superior Court of Guam may also grant letters of administration pursuant to the applicable provisions of Chapter 21 of this Title. SOURCE: Guam Law Revision Commission. COMMENT: The Commiss…