Title 7 — Judiciary and Civil Procedure

All persons and association of persons, including corporations, performing labor upon or bestowing skill or other necessary services on, furnishing materials or leasing equipment to be used or consumed in or for a work of improvement of real property, except Public Works, shall h…

The liens provided for in this Chapter shall be direct liens, and shall be for the reasonable value of the labor, services, equipment, or materials furnished or for the price agreed upon by the claimant and the person with whom he or she contracted, whichever is less. The right t…

Such liens shall only attach to the interest in the real property of the owner of the improvement or for whose benefit the improvement was constructed; provided that in no event shall any owner’s interest be subject to a claim of lien based upon a work of improvement contracted f…

(a) Any claimant under the provisions of this Chapter, in order to enforce a lien, and: (1) within ninety (90) days after either, (A) completion of his contract on a work of improvement; or (B) after he has ceased for thirty (30) consecutive days to perform labor or furnish mater…

Notice of Completion means a written notice, signed and verified by the owner or his agent, containing all of the following: (a) The date of completion. The recital of an erroneous date of completion shall not, however, affect the validity of the notice if the true date of comple…

(a) Except one under direct contract with the owner or one performing actual labor for wages, every lien claimant shall, as a necessary prerequisite to the validity of any claim of lien, cause to be given to the owner or reputed owner, either personally or by certified mail with …

If any person disputes the correctness or validity of any claim of lien, he may record with the Department of Land Management, either before or after the commencement of any action to enforce such claim of lien, a bond executed by a corporation authorized to issue surety bonds in…

No lien provided for in this Chapter binds any property for a longer period of time than ninety (90) days after recording the claim of lien, unless within that time an action to foreclose the lien is commenced in the Superior Court. After commencement of an action to foreclose th…

All liens timely filed have equal priority. If a lien claimant obtains a judgment foreclosing a lien, all proceeds from the sale of the property subject to the lien shall be deposited into escrow with the Superior Court of Guam until the time for all other lien claimants to recor…

Personal Action or Issuance of a Writ of Attachment. Nothing contained in this Chapter affects the right of a claimant to maintain a personal action to recover a debt against the person liable therefor under other Guam law, either in a separate action or in the action to foreclos…

Mechanics’ Lien Actions. In all cases where a claim of lien is recorded for labor, services, equipment or materials furnished to any contractor, he shall defend any action brought thereon at his own expense, and during the pendency of any claim of lien the owner may withhold from…

(a) The effective date of this Act shall be sixty (60) days after it is enacted into law. (b) The 2008 Guam Mechanics’ Lien Law will apply to all works of improvement that commence after the effective date of this law. The prior Guam Mechanics’ Lien Law will no longer be applicab…