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- 15 GCA § 860 · Nontestamentary Transfer on Death.
- 15 GCA § 861 · Rights of Creditor on Registration.
- 15 GCA § 862 · Terms, Conditions and Forms for Registration.
- 15 GCA § 863 · Notice of Effect of Registration.
- 15 GCA § 901 · Succession to Separate Property Controlled by This Chapter; Effect of Contracts and Other Portions of Title.
- 15 GCA § 903 · Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Surviving Spouse and Issue.
- 15 GCA § 905 · Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Issue But No Surviving Spouse.
- 15 GCA § 907 · Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Surviving Spouse But No Issue.
- 15 GCA § 909 · Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Surviving Spouse But No Family.
- 15 GCA § 911 · Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Neither Surviving Spouse Nor Issue.
- 15 GCA § 913 · Distribution Where Decedent Leaves Neither Surviving Spouse, Issue Nor Immediate Family.
- 15 GCA § 915 · Distribution of Estate of Minor Unmarried Decedent.
- 15 GCA § 917 · Distribution of Community Property Acquired From Decedent's Predeceased Spouse Where Decedent Leaves Neither Spouse Nor Issue.
- 15 GCA § 919 · Distribution of Former Separate Property of Decedent's Previously Deceased Spouse.
- 15 GCA § 921 · When Property Received From Previously Deceased Spouse is Distributed to Next of Kin.
- 15 GCA § 1001 · Title of Surviving Spouse to Community Property; Portion Subject to Testamentary Disposition or Succession.
- 15 GCA § 1003 · Dispositions of Community Property to Someone Other Than Surviving Spouse: Law Governing Administration and Disposal.
- 15 GCA § 1005 · Passage of Community Property to Surviving Spouse Without Administration; Surviving Spouse's Election of Admin- istration.
- 15 GCA § 1007 · Surviving Spouse's Ability to Deal With Community Property; Notice of Claim of Another Under Decedent's Will; Such Property Treated as If It Were Surviving Spouse's Separate Property.
- 15 GCA § 1009 · Surviving Spouse's Personal Liability for Deceased Spouse's Debts Chargeable Against Community Property; Exception.
- 15 GCA § 1101 · Disposition of Property Acquired While Domiciled Outside Guam or In Exchange Therefor.
- 15 GCA § 1103 · Election of Surviving Spouse to Take Under or Against Will.
- 15 GCA § 1105 · Election of Surviving Spouse to Take Under or Against Will, Requasi-Community Property.
- 15 GCA § 1107 · Restoration to Decedent's Estate of Property in Which Surviving Spouse Had Expectancy.
- 15 GCA § 1201 · Grounds for Escheat; Charges and Trusts on Escheated Property.
- 15 GCA § 1203 · Money Held in Certain Trust Funds Not to Escheat.
- 15 GCA § 1205 · Escheat of Real Property.
- 15 GCA § 1207 · Escheat of Tangible Personal Property, Wherever Located.
- 15 GCA § 1209 · Escheat of Decedent's Tangible Personal Property Which is Subject to Administration; Claim of Another Jurisdiction.
- 15 GCA § 1211 · Escheat of Intangible Personal Property of Decedent Who was Domiciled in Guam.
- 15 GCA § 1213 · Escheat of Decedent's Intangible Personal Property Which is Subject to Administration; Claim of Another Jurisdiction.
- 15 GCA § 1301 · Disposition of Property Where Insufficient Evidence of Survivorship, Generally.
- 15 GCA § 1303 · Beneficiaries Taking Successively Under Another's Disposition of Property In Simultaneous Death Situation.
- 15 GCA § 1305 · Disposition of Joint Tenancy Property in Simultaneous Death Situation.
- 15 GCA § 1307 · Proceeds of Insurance Policy in Simultaneous Death Situation.
- 15 GCA § 1309 · Disposition of Community Property in Simultaneous Death Situation.
- 15 GCA § 1311 · Proceeding to Determine Simultaneous Death: Petition; Notice of Hearing; Service.
- 15 GCA § 1313 · Proceeding to Determine Simultaneous Death: Hearing; Determination of Order of Death; Jurisdiction.
- 15 GCA § 1315 · Prospective Effect of This Chapter.
- 15 GCA § 1317 · When This Chapter is Inapplicable.
- 15 GCA § 1319 · This Chapter to be Construed to Effect Uniformity.
- 15 GCA § 1321 · Short Title.
- 15 GCA § 1401 · Title and Possession of Property Upon Decedent's Death.
- 15 GCA § 1403 · Probate Jurisdiction in Superior Court of Guam.
- 15 GCA § 1405 · Conclusiveness of Orders Granting Letters; Exceptions.
- 15 GCA § 1407 · Disqualification of Interested Judge; Procedure for Transfer of Proceedings to Other Judge.
- 15 GCA § 1501 · Delivery of Will After Death.
- 15 GCA § 1503 · Who May Petition For Probate of Will.
- 15 GCA § 1505 · Renouncement of Named Executor's Right to Letters by Failure to Petition.
- 15 GCA § 1507 · Contents of Original Petition for Probate of Will; Incorrect Statement of Jurisdictional Facts Not a Bar to Court's Jurisdiction.
- 15 GCA § 1509 · Offer to Probate of Foreign Wills.
- 15 GCA § 1511 · Procedure for Admission of Foreign Wills to Probate; Notice.
- 15 GCA § 1513 · Order to Produce Will; Confinement to Jail for Refusal to Produce; Court Has Power to Enforce Production of Wills and Attendance of Witnesses.
- 15 GCA § 1515 · Notice of Hearing on Petition for Probate of Will and for Letters.
- 15 GCA § 1517 · Service of Notice Upon Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Named Executors.
- 15 GCA § 1519 · Proof of Witnessed Will in Uncontested Proceedings.
- 15 GCA § 1521 · Proof of Will by Copy When Will is Outside Guam.
- 15 GCA § 1523 · Proof of Holographic Will.
- 15 GCA § 1525 · Proof of Lost or Destroyed Wills; Restraining Acts of Previously Appointed Administrator Pending Hearing on Petition.
- 15 GCA § 1527 · Record of Entry of Admission of Will to Probate; Translation of Wills.
- 15 GCA § 1529 · Provisions of Order Admitting Lost or Destroyed Will: Perpetuation of Witnesses' Testimony.
- 15 GCA § 1531 · No Contest Permitted as to Foreign Will if Admitted Elsewhere.
- 15 GCA § 1601 · Filing Opposition to Probate; Service; Pre-trial Procedures.
- 15 GCA § 1603 · Trial of Contest.
- 15 GCA § 1605 · Subscribing Witnesses to Testify; Other Evidence Permitted Where Subscribing Witnesses are Unavailable.
- 15 GCA § 1607 · Judgment.
- 15 GCA § 1609 · Subscribing Witnesses' Testimony to be Perpetuated; Uses of Such Perpetuated Testimony in Subsequent Contest.
- 15 GCA § 1611 · Who May Contest; Contents of Petition; Limitation of Time to File.
- 15 GCA § 1613 · Citation to Personal Representative, Devisees, Legatees and Heirs.
- 15 GCA § 1615 · Service of Citation; Trial of Contest; Revocation of Probate Upon Successful Contest.
- 15 GCA § 1617 · Liability for Costs of Trial.
- 15 GCA § 1619 · Probate Conclusive if Uncontested Within Limit of Time; Exceptions.
- 15 GCA § 1621 · Effect of Will Contest on Probate of Other Will of Testator.
- 15 GCA § 1701 · Who May be Executors; Who May Not.
- 15 GCA § 1703 · Executor Indicated, But Not Specifically Named, In Will.
- 15 GCA § 1705 · Testator's Ability to Confer Power to Designate Executor, Coexecutor, Successor Executor or Successor Coexecutor.
- 15 GCA § 1707 · Absentee or Minor Named as Executor; Appointment of Interim Executor or Administrator With the Will Annexed; Effect of Removal of Disability.
- 15 GCA § 1709 · Executor Who Removes From Guam: Automatic Appointment of Attorney for Service of Process.
- 15 GCA § 1711 · Executor Who Removes From Guam: Filing of Statement of Permanent Address; Change of Address; Removal for Failure to Comply.
- 15 GCA § 1713 · Executor Who Removes From Guam: Service of Process or
- 15 GCA § 1715 · Executor Who Removes From Guam: Effect of Service; Time to Answer.
- 15 GCA § 1717 · Failure to Grant Letters to All Named Executors: Powers of Those to Whom Letters Are Granted.
- 15 GCA § 1719 · Powers of Named Executor Before Grant of Letters Testamentary.
- 15 GCA § 1721 · Letters Testamentary to be Granted in Absence of Objection.
- 15 GCA § 1723 · Objections to Granting Letters Testamentary and Petition for Letters of Administration With the Will Annexed; Circumstances for Appointment of Administrator With Will Annexed.
- 15 GCA § 1725 · Appointment of Administrators With the Will Annexed in the First Instance; Circumstances for and Priority of Appointment; Powers; Security for Faithful Performance of Trust.
- 15 GCA § 1801 · Administrators Must Have Same Qualifications as Executors.
- 15 GCA § 1803 · Surviving Partner Not to be Administrator If Any Interested Person Objects to Appointment.
- 15 GCA § 1805 · Priority of Persons Entitled to Letters of Administration.
- 15 GCA § 1807 · Letters of Administration May Be Granted to Nominee of One Entitled; Priority of Nominees; Procedure for Nomination.
- 15 GCA § 1809 · Discretion of Court to Grant Letters of Administration to Guardian of Minor or Incompetent, or to Other Person.
- 15 GCA § 1811 · Essential Contents of Petition for Letters of Administration; Incorrect Statement of Jurisdictional Facts No Bar to Jurisdiction.
- 15 GCA § 1813 · Notice of Hearing on Petition for Letters of Administration.
- 15 GCA § 1815 · Service of Notice of Petition for Letters of Administration Upon Heirs; Manner of Service; Service by Mail.
- 15 GCA § 1817 · Facts to be Proved at Hearing on Petition for Letters of Administration; Compelling Witnesses' Attendance; Contest of Petition; Grounds Counterpetition; Notice; Combined Hearings.
- 15 GCA § 1819 · Provisions of Sections 1709 through 1715 Applicable to Administrators.
- 15 GCA § 1821 · Provisions of This Chapter Do Not Provide Exclusive Manner of Appointment of Administrator.
- 15 GCA § 1901 · Causes for Appointment of Special Administrators.
- 15 GCA § 1903 · Notice; Appointment; Preference; Qualifications; Nonappealable Order.
- 15 GCA § 1905 · Security for Faithful Performance of Special Administrator; Oath; Letters.