Title 7 — Judiciary and Civil Procedure

This Act shall be known as the “Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (UEFJA) of 2014.”

The purpose of this Act is to provide for a simpler and more efficient procedure to domesticate judgments rendered in other states or territories of the United States that result from needing to bring a new lawsuit to enforce a sister-state judgment.

As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, foreign judgment means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States, or of any other court, which is entitled to full faith and credit in Guam.

A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with an act of Congress or the statutes or court rules of Guam may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam. The Clerk shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of the Supe…

(a) At the time of the filing of the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor’s lawyer shall make and file with the Clerk of Court an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the judgment debtor and the judgment creditor. (b) …

(a) If the judgment debtor shows the Superior Court in which the judgment is filed that an appeal from the foreign judgment is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the Court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment until the appeal is conc…

Any person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the Clerk of Court a filing fee equal to that established by court rule for the filing of civil actions.

The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce his judgment instead of proceeding under this Act remains unimpaired.

This Act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states and other jurisdictions which enact it. -------- COL7222015