Title 5, Government Operations

(a) A transfer or encumbrance of property, real or personal, which is incurred by a non-custodial parent owing arrears is fraudulent as to the arrears owed, regardless of whether the arrearage arises before or after the transfer or encumbrance, if the transfer or encumbrance is m…

(a) The Attorney General, or his/her designee, shall adopt a policy for the publication of a “Most Wanted Delinquent Absent Parent List” of obligors who are in arrears in their child support obligations pursuant to an order from any tribunal, as defined in Title 5, Guam Code Anno…

be Located. (a) The Attorney General shall commence an escheatment proceeding on behalf of the government of Guam in a court having jurisdiction to have it adjudged that the government of Guam is so entitled to the escheatment of undistributed funds. Such action shall be commence…

Non-Custodial Parents with Active Cases. When the Attorney General’s Child Support Enforcement Division (CSED) has undistributed funds that may need to be escheated and has lost contact with the custodial parent and the non-custodial parent: (a) The Attorney General shall continu…

Funds escheated pursuant to this Chapter are hereby appropriated to the OAG’s Child Support Enforcement Division to cover the reduction of federal funding. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 37-100:5 (June 5, 2024). ARTICLE 2 ACTION AGAINST LICENSES FOR FAILURE TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT SOURCE: Ar…

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds and declares that child support is a basic legal right of Guam’s parents and children, that mothers and fathers have a legal obligation to provide financial support for their children and that child support payments can have a substantial impact on chi…

As used in this Article: (a) “Administrative hearing” means a hearing conducted in accordance with the Administrative Adjudication Law, 5 GCA §§ 9100-9241. (b) “Compliance with an order of support” means the total of a non-custodial parents overdue and unpaid court ordered curren…

(a) If a non-custodial parent is in non-compliance with a court order of support, the Department may serve the non-custodial parent with a notice of proposed action indicating its intention to certify to a COL 2024-12-05 TITLE 5 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS licensing body that has issue…

(a) If the non-custodial parent petitions for an administrative hearing within twenty (20) days of service of the notice of proposed action, the Department shall stay action to certify the non-custodial parent to any licensing body for non-compliance with a court order of support…

(a) A non-custodial parent may file a petition for an administrative hearing after being served the notice of proposed action. (b) Upon receipt of the petition for hearing the Department acquires jurisdiction of the non-custodial parent for purposes of adjudication of the non-cus…

(a) An Administrative Hearing Officer shall conduct a hearing petitioned for by the non-custodial parent pursuant to the Administrative Adjudication Law 5 GCA §§ 9100-9241. Issues that may be decided at the hearing shall be limited to whether: (1) the non-custodial parent is requ…

(a) The Hearing Officer shall issue a decision after hearing without undue delay. The decision must be based on the hearing record only. (b) The Department shall personally serve or send a copy of the decision to the non-custodial parent by certified mail, return receipt requeste…

A non-custodial parent may appeal in accordance with the Administrative Adjudication Law, 5 GCA §§ 9100-9241, the Hearing Officer’s decision with respect to whether the non-custodial parent is obligated under a court order of support to pay child support, whether the non-custodia…

(a) The Department shall certify that a non-custodial parent is in non-compliance with a court order of support, and file that certification with a licensing body that has issued the non-custodial parent a license if: (1) the non-custodial parent has been served with a notice of …

A non-custodial parent may come into compliance by paying off the arrearage, or by obtaining an order establishing periodic payment on the arrears for which no payment has been ordered thereon, or by obtaining an order modifying an existing order for payments on an arrearage to e…

If a non-custodial parent who is served with a notice of proposed action or is certified to a licensing body subsequently comes into compliance with a court order of support, the Department shall provide the non-custodial parent and the licensing bodies with written confirmation …

Notwithstanding § 34109, within six (6) months of the effective date of this Act, all licensing bodies shall provide, and update quarterly, the Department with information, concerning applicants for licensure and current license holders, on magnetic tape or other machine readable…

A licensing body shall suspend the license of a non-custodial parent who has been certified as being in non-compliance with a court order of support, and may not issue or renew the license of a non-custodial parent who has been certified as being in non-compliance with a court or…

A licensing body shall notify a non-custodial parent certified by the Department to be in non- compliance at least ten (10) days prior to denial or suspension, that the non-custodial parent’s application for issuance or renewal of a license will not be granted or that the non-cus…

After receipt of written confirmation of compliance from the Department, a licensing body shall, within five (5) working days, reissue, renew, or otherwise extend a license against which action had been taken for non-compliance with an order for support. The re-issuance, renewal,…

A non-custodial parent whose vehicle operator’s license is suspended for non-compliance with a court order of support may request the Department to issue a written statement that permits the Director of the Department of Revenue and Taxation to issue a temporary license valid for…

The Hearings Division, Superior Court of Guam, shall make available to non-custodial parents who are not represented by an attorney, forms which would enable such non-custodial parents to make handwritten applications for reduction of their arrearages to judgment and for the esta…

The failure of a non-custodial parent to comply with any warrant or subpoena issued relating to paternity or to any other child support proceeding shall also result in the suspension, non-issuance, or non- renewal of a non-custodial parents license in the same manner and using th…

As used in this Article: (a) “Date of hiring” means the earlier of: (1) the first day for which an employee is owed compensation by an employer; or (2) the first day that an employee reports to work or performs labor or services for an employer. (b) “Earnings” means payment owed …

There is established, within the Department of Law, Family Division, a New Hire Directory for the purpose of receiving information supplied by employers on newly hired or rehired employees. COL 2024-12-05 TITLE 5 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

An employer shall report to the Director of New Hires whenever that employer hires or rehires an employee. Employers shall submit reports required under this subsection within twenty (20) calendar days of the date of hiring or rehiring of the employee. SOURCE: Subsection (b) repe…

(a) An employer who: (1) fails to file reports as required by the Department of Law, Family Division and has not previously received a written notice of non-compliance, shall receive written notice of non- compliance; (2) fails to file reports as required by this Chapter and has …

(a) Employers may report by delivering, mailing, or telefaxing a copy of the employees Federal W-4 form or W-9 form or any other document that contains the required information, transmitting the required information by electronic or magnetic means in a compatible format, or by ot…

(a) Reports required under § 34303 of this Chapter must contain: (1) the employees name, address, social security number, and date of birth when available, which can be handwritten or otherwise added to the W-4 form, W-9 form or other document submitted; and (2) the employers nam…

(a) The Director of New Hires shall ensure that information received from an employer pursuant to this Article 3 will be entered into the Directory of New Hires within five (5) working days of receipt. Within three (3) working days after entry into the Directory of New Hires, the…

The government of Guam, when acting in the capacity of contractee, shall report the execution of a contract with any person as an independent contractor to the Director of New Hires in the same manner as the hiring of an employee is reported.

(a) As soon as practicable after the enactment of this Section, the Department shall, either directly or by contract, conduct automated comparisons of the social security numbers reported by employers pursuant to this Article 2 and the social security numbers appearing in the rec…

This Act may be cited as the “Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.”

In this Act: (a) Child means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the COL1242015 individual’s parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. (b) Child-suppor…

(a) The Unified Courts of Guam are the tribunal of this state. (b) The Child Support Enforcement Division of the Office of the Attorney General is the support enforcement agency of this state. COL1242015

(a) Remedies provided by this Act are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other laws or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity. (b) This Act does not: (1) provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support or…

Foreign Support Proceeding. (a) A tribunal of this state shall apply Articles 1 through 6 and, as applicable, Article 7, to a support proceeding involving: (1) a foreign support order; (2) a foreign tribunal; or (3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country. (b)…

(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian if: (1) the individual is personally served with summons or not…

Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this state in a proceeding under this Act or other law of this state relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to …

Under this Act, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state, and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.

(a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if: (1) the petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the e…

Support Order. (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and: (1) at the time of the fi…

(a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce: (1) the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribu…

(a) If a proceeding is brought under this Act and only one (1) tribunal has issued a child-support order, the order of that tribunal controls and must be recognized. (b) If a proceeding is brought under this Act, and two (2) or more child-support orders have been issued by tribun…

In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two (2) or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one (1) of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign count…

A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state, or…