This Article may be cited as the Small Claims Court Act. A Small Claims Division is created within the Superior Court of Guam on the following terms and conditions.

SOURCE: Enacted as Chapter III-B of Title 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure by P.L. 20-028 (June 13, 1989). This law was not included in the Supreme Court Act, which constitutes Chapters 1 through 9 of this Title. However, since this section was referred to in Article 1 of this Chapter, which was part of the Supreme Court enactment, the Compiler
is including this Article here on the presumption that it was never repealed by the Supreme Court Act.

The original law enacted this entire Article as “”Section 100″”. The Compiler has changed the respective subsections into separate sections in order to conform to the format of the Guam Code Annotated and to make the Article easier to understand and locate.

COMMENT: The Legislature stated its Intent preceding Section 1 as follows:

The Legislature finds that due to high legal fees and the lack of attorneys willing to take cases involving small amounts, the courts are effectively unavailable to small claims litigants, and the current small claims court system is inadequate to address this problem; accordingly.