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Terms Used In 15 Guam Code Ann. § 813

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Probate: Proving a will
Kindred of the half blood inherit equally with those of the whole blood in the same degree, unless the property which constitutes such inheritance came to the intestate decedent by descent, devise or gift of some one of such decedent’s ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestor must be excluded from such inheritance in favor of those who are.

SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 254.