7 Guam Code Ann. § 39304
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- 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 court of Guam which does not have jurisdiction to modify a child- custody determination, may issue a temporary order enforcing:
(1) a visitation schedule made by a court of another State; or
(2) the visitation provisions of a child-custody determination of another State that does not provide for a specific visitation schedule.
(b) If a court of Guam makes an order under Subsection (a)(2), it shall specify in the order a period that it considers adequate to allow the petitioner to obtain an order from a court having jurisdiction under the criteria specified in Article 2. The order remains in effect until an order is obtained from the other court or the period expires.