Title 15 — Estates and Probate
51 chapters · 695 sections in this title.
15 GCA § 2601 Definition of Personal Representative
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For purposes of this Chapter, the term personal representative shall be defined as it is defined in Section 2501 of this Title. SOURCE: Guam Law Revision Commission. COMMENT: See Comment to § 2501, supra.
15 GCA § 2603 Time for Filing Inventory and Appraisement; Contents
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Within three (3) months after his appointment, or within such further time as the Superior Court of Guam for reasonable cause may allow, the personal representative must file with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam an inventory and appraisement of the estate of the decedent …
15 GCA § 2605 Community and Separate Property
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The inventory referred to in Section 2603 of this Title must show, so far as the same can be ascertained by the personal representative, what portion of the property is community property, and what portion is separate property of the decedent. SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970),…
15 GCA § 2607 Testator's Claims Against Executor
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The naming of a person as executor does not thereby discharge such person from any just claim which the testator has against him, but the claim must be included in the inventory referred to in Section 2603 of this Title, and the executor is liable for the same as for so much mone…
15 GCA § 2609 Testator's Claims Against Executor; Bequest to Executor;
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Nature and Effect. The discharge or bequest in a will of any debt or demand of the testator against the executor or any other person is not valid against the creditors of the decedent, but is a specific bequest of the debt or demand. It must be included in the inventory referred …
15 GCA § 2611 Oath
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The personal representative must take and subscribe an oath that the inventory referred to in Section 2603 of this Title contains a true statement of all of the estate of the decedent which has come to the personal representative's possession or knowledge, and particularly of all…
15 GCA § 2613 Appraisement: Personalty to be Appraised, or its Value
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Estimated, by Personal Representative; Court has Discretion to Order Professional Appraisement of Personalty; Real Property to be Appraised by Court-Appointed Appraiser; Procedure. (a) (1) The personal representative shall appraise at fair market value moneys, currency, cash item…
15 GCA § 2615 Competency to Act as Appraiser
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No Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam or Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam, or partner or employee of a judge of the Superior Court of Guam, or person related to a judge of the Superior Court of Guam or to his spouse within the third degree, or who is married to a relat…
15 GCA § 2617 Form of Inventory and Appraisement; Signatures; Oaths
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The inventory and appraisement shall be prepared in such form as to set down each item separately with the fair market value thereof at the time of the decedent's death in dollars and cents in figures opposite the respective items. The appraisement shall be signed by the personal…
15 GCA § 2619 Compensation of Appraiser
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The appraiser is entitled to receive, from the estate he appraises, his actual and necessary expenses and reasonable compensation for his services, to be allowed by the Superior Court of Guam; and the appraiser must file, with the inventory and appraisement, a verified account of…
15 GCA § 2621 Failure to File Inventory; Revocation of Letters; Liability of
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Personal Representative. If the personal representative neglects or refuses to file the inventory and appraisement within the time prescribed, the Superior Court of Guam, upon notice, may revoke the personal representative's letters, and the personal representative shall be liabl…
15 GCA § 2623 Inventory and Appraisement of Newly Discovered Property
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Whenever property not included in the inventory referred to in Section 2603 of this Title comes to the possession or knowledge of the personal representative, the personal representative must cause an inventory and appraisement thereof to be made and filed in the manner prescribe…
15 GCA § 2625 Penalty for Embezzlement of Decedent's Property
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COL120106 If any person embezzles, conceals, smuggles, or fraudulently disposes of any property of a decedent, he is chargeable therewith, and liable to an action by the personal representative of the estate for double the value of the property, to be recovered for the benefit of…
15 GCA § 2627 Procedure Against Embezzler of Decedent's Property
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Upon complaint made under oath by a personal representative or other person interested in the estate of a decedent, that any person is suspected of having embezzled, concealed, smuggled, or fraudulently disposed of any property of the decedent, or has in his possession or has kno…
15 GCA § 2629 Enforcement of Examination of Person Suspected of
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Embezzlement of Decedent's Property. If the person cited pursuant to the provisions of Section 2627 of this Title refuses to appear and submit to an examination, or to answer such interrogatories as may be put to him, touching the matters of the complaint made pursuant to the pro…
15 GCA § 2631 Examination of Person Entrusted With Part of Estate
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The Superior Court of Guam, upon the complaint, on oath, of any personal representative, may cite any person who has been entrusted with any part of the estate of the decedent to appear before the Superior Court of Guam and require such person to render a full account, on oath, o…