7 Guam Code Ann. § 39301
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Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 39301
- 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.
used in this Article:
(a) ‘Petitioner’ means a person who seeks enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child-custody determination.
(b) ‘Respondent’ means a person against whom a proceeding has been commenced for enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child-custody determination.
2013 NOTE: Numbers and/or letters were altered to adhere to the Compiler’s alpha-
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7 Guam Code Ann. CIVIL PROCEDURE
CH. 39 UNIFORM CHILD-CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT
numeric scheme in accordance to 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.