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Terms Used In 15 Guam Code Ann. § 2103

  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
) A personal representative may resign his appointment at any time, by a writing filed in the Superior Court of Guam, to take effect upon the settlement of his accounts. If, however, by reason of any delay in such settlement, or for any other cause, the circumstances of the estate

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15 Guam Code Ann. ESTATES AND PROBATE
CH. 21 REMOVAL AND SUBSTITUTION OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES

or the rights of those interested in the estate so require, the Superior Court of Guam, at any time after the tendering of such resignation, may revoke the letters of such personal representative and appoint in his stead an administrator, either special or general, or an administrator with the will annexed, in the same manner as is provided in this Title in relation to original letters of administration or original letters of administration with the will annexed.

(b) The liability of a personal representative who resigns as provided in subsection (a) of this Section, or of the sureties on his bond or other form of security, if any, shall not in any manner be discharged, released or affected by such resignation or by the grant of letters of administration with the will annexed or of letters of administration to another person, but shall continue until the personal representative who so resigns has delivered up all the estate to the person whom the Superior Court of Guam shall appoint to receive the same.
SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 520.

§ 2105. Death or Resignation of One of Several Personal
Representatives; Completion of Administration; Amended Letters.
If letters have been granted to several personal representatives as co- personal representatives, and one of them dies or resigns, or if the letters of any one of several such co-personal representatives are revoked or annulled, the remaining personal representatives must proceed to complete the execution of the will or to complete the administration. In any such case, the Superior Court of Guam, upon the filing of a verified petition alleging such fact, may order the Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam to issue appropriate amended letters to the remaining personal representatives.

SOURCE: California Probate Code, § 511 (as amended).