Terms Used In 19 Guam Code Ann. § 7109

  • 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.
(a) All hearings, conferences and other proceedings held pursuant to the court’s exercise of conciliation jurisdiction shall be held in private and

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all persons other than officers of the court, conciliation services personnel, the spouses, their counsel and witnesses shall be excluded.
(b) All communications, verbal or written, between spouses and from spouses to counselors, the court, attorneys, doctors or others engaged in the conciliation proceedings, made in conciliation conferences, hearing and other proceedings had pursuant to the exercise of the court’s conciliation jurisdiction shall be confidential.

(c) All records of the court with respect to exercise of conciliation jurisdiction shall be closed. However, any petition and written reconciliation agreement between the spouses and any court order made in the matter may be opened to inspection by either spouse or his counsel upon written authorization by a judge of the court.
SOURCE: CC ‘152.3.

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