Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction. (a) To the full extent permitted by the Northern Mariana Islands Constitution and the Schedule on Transitional Matters, the Commonwealth Trial Court shall have jurisdiction over all subject matter relating to estates of decedents, including construction of wills and determination of heirs and successors of decedents. (b) The Commonwealth Trial Court shall have full power to make orders, judgments, and decrees and take all other action necessary and proper to administer justice in the matters which come before it. Source: PL 3-106, ch. 2, § 2. Commission Comment: Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.”