Title 7 — Judiciary and Civil Procedure

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

This Chapter shall be known as the “Uniform Foreign Money- Judgments Recognition Act of 2014.”

As used in this Chapter: (a) Foreign country means a government other than: (1) the United States; (2) a state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States; or (3) any other government with regard to which the decision in this state as to whether…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (b), this Chapter applies to a foreign-country judgment to the extent that the judgment both: (1) grants or denies recovery of a sum of money; and (2) under the law of the foreign country where rendered, is final, conclusive, and enf…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Subsections (b) and (c), a court of Guam shall recognize a foreign-country judgment to which this Chapter applies. (b) A court of Guam shall not recognize a foreign-country judgment if any of the following apply: (1) the judgment was rendered u…

(a) A foreign-country judgment shall not be refused recognition for lack of personal jurisdiction if any of the following apply: (1) the defendant was served with process personally in the foreign country; (2) the defendant voluntarily appeared in the proceeding, other than for t…

Country Money Judgment. (a) If recognition of a foreign-country judgment is sought as an original matter, the issue of recognition shall be raised by filing an action seeking recognition of the foreign-country judgment. (b) If recognition of a foreign-country judgment is sought i…

If the court in a proceeding under § 52106 finds that the foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition under this Chapter then, to the extent that the foreign-country judgment grants or denies recovery of a sum of money, the foreign-country judgment is: COL7222015 CH 52 TH…

Judgment. If a party establishes that an appeal from a foreign-country judgment is pending or will be taken, the court may stay any proceedings with regard to the foreign-country judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires, or the appellant has had suffici…

An action to recognize a foreign-country judgment must be commenced within the earlier of the time during which the foreign-country judgment is effective in the foreign country or fifteen (15) years from the date that the foreign-country judgment became effective in the foreign c…

In applying and construing this Chapter, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact the “Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.”

The Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act does not prevent the recognition under principles of comity or otherwise of a foreign-country judgment not within the scope of that Act. --------- COL7222015

This Chapter shall be known as the “Guam Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act of 2019.”

As used in this Chapter, the term: (a) child means an unemancipated individual who is less than eighteen (18) years of age; (b) consent means affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization by an individual with legal capacity to give authorization; (c) depicted individual me…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in § 53104 of this Chapter, a depicted individual who is identifiable and who suffers harm from a person’s intentional disclosure or threatened disclosure of an intimate image that was private without the depicted individual’s consent has a cause …

UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INTIMATE IMAGES ACT OF 2019 (a) A person is not liable under this Chapter if the person proves that disclosure of, or a threat to disclose, an intimate image was: (1) made in good faith in: (A) law enforcement; (B) a legal proceeding; or (C) medical edu…

UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INTIMATE IMAGES ACT OF 2019 In an action under this Chapter: (a) a plaintiff may proceed using a pseudonym in place of the true name of the plaintiff; (b) the court may exclude or redact from all pleadings and documents filed in the action other identif…

(a) In an action under this Chapter, a prevailing plaintiff may recover: (1) the greater of: (A) economic and noneconomic damages proximately caused by the defendant’s disclosures or threatened disclosures, including damages for emotional distress whether or not accompanied by ot…

(a) An action under § 53103(a) for: (1) an unauthorized disclosure may not be brought later than four (4) years from the date the disclosure was discovered or should have been discovered with the exercise of reasonable diligence; and (2) a threat to disclose may not be brought la…

UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INTIMATE IMAGES ACT OF 2019 (a) This Chapter shall be construed to be consistent with the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. § 230 (b) This Chapter may not be construed to alter the Government Claims Act, 5 GCA Chapter 6. ----------

There is hereby created a Judicial Building Fund for the Superior Court of Guam. All money collected for the Fund shall be deposited in interest earning bank accounts as provided in § 9503 and § 9505 of this Chapter. SOURCE: CCP § 189 added by P.L. 17-0082:1 (Dec. 21, 1984).

(a) All income and interest earned on such income received by the Courts for the filing of documents, or imposition of fines equal to the fees collected as of September 12, 2002, except as otherwise mandated by 7 GCA Chapter 9, Article 2 and 8 GCA Chapter 161 relative to the Guam…

The Superior Court of Guam shall establish an account or accounts for the Judicial Building Fund, separate and apart from that of the government of Guam General Fund accounts and the existing accounts of the Superior Court. The new account or accounts established for the Fund tog…

The Judicial Building Fund shall be under the stewardship of the Judicial Council. The Judicial Council shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, full statements of accounts of all money received and expended out of the account or accounts of the Building Fund, and shall transmit s…

The Superior Court of Guam is hereby authorized to deposit money in any of its accounts other than those established pursuant to § 9503 of this Chapter into interest earning checking or savings accounts. All interest so earned shall be withdrawn from the checking or savings accou…

The Judicial Council is authorized by this Section to enter into a loan agreement on behalf of the Government of Guam for the sole purpose of financing the planning, construction, furnishing and equipment of a new Judicial Building and to secure such loan by proceeds from the Jud…

I Liheslatura may, from time to time, appropriate funds from the General Fund for deposit in the Judicial Building Fund. Such funds, when appropriated, shall be paid directly to the Judicial Building Fund. SOURCE: CCP § 189.6 added by P.L. 17-082:1 (Dec. 21, 1984). 2025 NOTE: Ref…

The Judiciary shall retain an independent Value Engineering Consultant as their review agent for the purpose of ascertaining cost effectiveness and other related goals provided by value engineering studies. SOURCE: CCP § 89.7 added by P.L. 17-082:1 (Dec. 21, 1984). NOTE: P.L. 17-…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation, a maximum of Twenty Thousand Dollars per year from the amounts not used of financing the planning, construction, furnishing and equipment of the judicial building for the Superior Court of Guam, shall be available fr…

(a) [No text] (1) The Judicial Council is hereby authorized to provide for the design, construction and collateral equipment of a forensic science laboratory by entering into a financing arrangement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or other financing source, with a lower …

After the debt service obligations are met to repay any debts funded by the Judicial Building Fund, such remaining sums as are needed for maintaining the Judicial Center and Forensic Science Building shall be expended from available funds in the Judicial Building Fund. SOURCE: Ad…

(a) [No text] (1) The Judicial Council is further authorized to enter into a financing arrangement to include a loan agreement or line of credit on behalf of the government of Guam to provide for: (A) Judiciary of Guam facility repairs, improvements, and acquisition of real prope…

There is hereby created a Judicial Client Services Fund for the Courts of Guam. All money collected for the Fund shall be deposited in interest-earning bank accounts as provided in § 9602 and § 9604 of this Chapter.

All fees, fines or revenues approved by the Supreme Court of Guam or the Judicial Council and collected by the Courts of Guam, which are over and above the fees collected as of September 12, 2002, for the filing of documents, or imposition of fines, except as otherwise mandated b…

The Superior Court of Guam shall establish an account or accounts for the Judicial Client Services Fund, separate and apart from that of the government of Guam General Fund accounts, the Judicial Building Fund, and the existing accounts of the Superior Court. The new account or a…

The Judicial Client Services Fund shall be under the stewardship of the Judicial Council. The Judicial Council shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, full statements of accounts of all money received and expended out of the account or accounts of the Judicial Client Services Fun…

I Liheslatura may, from time to time, appropriate funds from the General Fund for deposit in the Judicial Client Services Fund. Such funds, when appropriated, shall be paid directly to the Judicial Client Services Fund.

The Judicial Client Services Fund may be encumbered as collateral for a line of credit to pay for court appointed attorney fees and any other expense approved by the Judicial Council of Guam or the Supreme Court of Guam, which may be entered into by the Superior Court of Guam, th…