(a) Officer means Veterans Affairs Officer.

(b) Office means the Office of Veterans Affairs.

(c) Veteran includes veterans of the Guam Combat Patrol, the United States Navy Insular Force, Philippine Scouts and the United States Armed Forces.

(d) Spouse means a person who is legally married to the Veteran at the time that Veteran was on active duty, or active duty for training, or inactive duty for training and prior to the date when the service connected injuries occurred, and subsequently rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as being one hundred percent (100%) Disabled due to service connected reasons or is rated as being Individually Unemployable by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

(e) Surviving Spouse means a person who:

(1) was married to the service member who died from service-connected injuries while on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training, and is not currently remarried; or

(2) was married to the Veteran, for at least one (1) year immediately prior to death of a Veteran who is rated by the U.S. Veterans Administration as being one hundred percent (100%) Disabled or Individually Unemployable, and is not currently remarried.

(f) (1) Legal Guardian for Minor Children of a Single Parent is a person lawfully vested with the power, and charged with the obligation of taking care of and managing the property and rights of a person who because of age, understanding, or self-control, is considered incapable of administering his or her own

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affairs, while the service member, who is a single parent, is deployed to an area where dependents are not allowed to accompany the service member.

(2) Said designation as Legal Guardian shall have been effected prior to the deployment of the service member.

(g) Legal Guardian for Disabled Service Member is a person lawfully vested with the power, and charged with the obligation, of taking care of and managing the property and rights of a person who because of service-connected disabling injuries is in need of care, and provided that the service member is divorced, never married, widowed, or has no children.

(h) Individually Unemployable. As defined by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a Veteran must be unable to maintain substantially gainful employment as a result of his/her service-connected disabilities. Additionally, a Veteran must have:

(1) one (1) service-connected disability ratable at sixty percent (60%) or more; or

(2) two (2) or more service-connected disabilities, at least one (1) disability ratable at forty percent (40%) or more, with a combined rating of seventy percent (70%) or more.

SOURCE: GC § 8976. Amended by P.L. 28-046:5 (June 10, 2005). Subsections (d)-(h) added by P.L. 31-240:2 (Dec. 6, 2012).

2018 NOTE: Subitem designations added in subsection (f) pursuant to authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.