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Terms Used In 19 Guam Code Ann. § 7105

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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) Whenever either spouse or both spouses file in the Superior Court a petition requesting the court to exercise conciliation jurisdiction with respect to a disturbance existing between the spouses, the court shall exercise conciliation jurisdiction over the disturbance and over the parties thereto and all persons having any relation to the disturbance.
(b) The petition shall:

(1) Allege that a disturbance exists between the spouses and request the aid of the court to effect a reconciliation or a settlement of the disturbance;

(2) State the name, address and age of each spouse and the date and place of marriage;
(3) State the name, address and age of each minor child of the spouses or either spouse;
(4) State, if known, whether a domestic relations suit involving the same marriage is pending in any other court in this or any other state; and
(5) State such other information as the court, by rule may require.
SOURCE: CC ‘151.2.

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19 Guam Code Ann. PERSONAL RELATIONS
CH. 7 CONCILIATION LAW