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Terms Used In 15 Guam Code Ann. § 2723

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
e order settling and allowing the account, when it becomes final, is conclusive against all persons interested in the estate, saving, however, to persons under legal disability, the right to move for cause to reopen and examine the account, or to proceed by action against the personal representative or his sureties, at any time before final distribution; and in any such action such order is prima facie evidence of the correctness of the account.

SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 931.

§ 2725. Account of Deceased or Incompetent Personal
Representative; Accounting by Attorney; Fee for Such Accounting.
If the personal representative dies or becomes incompetent, his accounts may be presented by his personal representative or guardian to, and settled by, the Superior Court, and, upon petition of the successor of such deceased or incompetent personal representative, the Superior Court shall compel the personal representative or guardian of the deceased or incompetent personal representative to render an account of the administration of his testator or intestate, and must settle such account as

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in other cases. In the event the personal representative dies or becomes incompetent and there is no personal representative appointed for his estate, or he absconds, then the Superior Court may compel the attorney for such absconding, deceased or incompetent personal representative or attorney of record in the estate proceeding to render an account of the administration of such absconding, deceased or incompetent personal representative to the extent that the attorney has information or records available to him for the purpose. The account of the attorney need not be verified. A reasonable fee shall be allowed to the attorney by the Superior Court for this extraordinary service.

SOURCE: California Probate Code, § 932 (as amended).