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Terms Used In 15 Guam Code Ann. § 909

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Probate: Proving a will
If the decedent leaves a surviving spouse and neither issue, parent, brother, sister, nor descendant of a deceased brother or sister, the whole of the decedent’s separate estate goes to such surviving spouse.

SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 224; California Probate Code, § 224.

§ 911. Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Neither Surviving
Spouse Nor Issue.

If the decedent leaves neither issue nor surviving spouse, the decedent’s separate estate goes to the decedent’s parents in equal shares; or if either is dead, to the survivor; or if both are dead, in equal shares to the decedent’s brothers and sisters and to the descendants of the dece- dent’s brothers and sisters by right of representation.

SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 225.