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Terms Used In 5 Guam Code Ann. § 34146

  • 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.
) The income withholding order shall direct that payment be made to the Clerk of the Superior Court. The clerk shall promptly transmit payments received pursuant to an income withholding order based on a support order of another jurisdiction entered under this Chapter to the appropriate agency, court or person from the initiating jurisdiction.
(b) A support order entered pursuant to § 34141 of this Chapter does not nullify and is not nullified by a support order made by the Superior Court pursuant to any other law or by a support order made by a court of any other state. Amounts collected by any withholding of income shall be credited against the amounts accruing or accrued for any period under any support orders issued either by this territory or by a state.
SOURCE: Added by P.L. 18-017:41 (Oct. 5, 1985).