Legal Services for Individuals with Low-Income

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a private, non-profit corporation established by the federal government to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to afford it.

Disability Law Center

To receive services under our Protection and Advocacy programs, you must be an individual with a disability who needs assistance with an issue related to the disability. Other factors which may affect eligibility for services include: • The type of assistance needed • Whether conflicts of interest apply to your case • The effect on your life, health, or safety • The availability of other programs to address your issue

Protection & Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security

PABSS - Providing advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security Disability Insurance or recipients of Supplemental Security Income who are interested in working or returning to work.

Traumatic Brain Injury

A traumatic brain injury is a head injury that results in dam-age to the brain. There are two types of head injuries that can lead to damage within the brain: closed head injuries and pene-trating head injuries.

Protection & Advocacy for Voting Access

The Guam Legal Services Corporation (GLSC) PAVA Program provides information, outreach, education, training, and advocacy to ensure the full participation of individuals with disabilities in the electoral process.

Adult Drug Court (ADC)

The Judiciary's mission in Guam Adult Drug Court is to hold criminal offenders accountable for their behavior, to decrease criminal activity related to the abuse of alcohol and drugs, and to increase the likelihood of successful rehabilitation through immediate, continuous, and intensive supervision. Through a committed collaborative team approach, we work diligently to aid our client's successful recovery and reintegration into the community as productive, law abiding citizens.

Juvenile Drug Court (JDC)

The mission of the Judiciary of Guam’s Juvenile Drug Court (JDC) is to reduce substance abuse and criminal behavior among juveniles and empower juveniles and families to support a positive lifestyle by providing strength-based intensive intervention within the juvenile justice system and rehabilitation services tailored to the needs of families and each individual juvenile.

Drug Testing Services

The Probation Services Division administers drug testing for clients in accordance with their conditions of release or probationary term.

Third Party Custodian

The Probation Services Division’s, Office Duty Section is responsible for interviewing interested Proposed Third Party Custodians.

If you are interested in becoming a Third Party Custodian (TPC) please review this pamphlet to ensure that you understand the basic requirements and responsibilities of a TPC.

Sex Offender Registry

The purpose of the Guam Sex Offender Registry Management Office is to ensure the safety of our island community, most particularly, children, from sex offenders, especially violent predators.  In order to accomplish this, the office diligently monitors the island’s sex offender population to protect existing victims, prevent further victimization, and deter recidivism among offenders. To increase public safety and community awareness the Guam Sex Offender Registry Management Office Maintains an internet webpage: http://www.guamcourts.org/sor/index.html giving the public the power to access information pertaining to sex offenders living in the community.

The Judiciary of Guam, Guam Sex Offender Registry Management Office is located at The Guam Judicial Center, Probation Services Division (“the old court building”).

Alternative Sentencing Office

The Alternative Sentencing Office (ASO) is a section within the Probation Services Division, Judiciary of Guam. ASO’s primary purpose and function is to provide Judges, Government Attorneys and Defense Counsel with workable alternatives to traditional sentencing options (which are fines, probation, and/or incarceration) in order to:

1. Educate offenders about the consequences of their criminal acts so they learn to assume responsibility for their actions; and
2. Provide opportunities for participants to learn ways of improving self-image and understanding the importance a positive self-image.

Men's Family Violence Treatment Programs

Purpose:  To promote safety and non-violence in relationships by educating and counseling men.

Family Violence Diversion Program

“ The twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence….. Less visible, but even more widespread, is the legacy of day-to-day, individual suffering. It is the pain of children who are abused by people who should protect them, women injured or humiliated by violent partners, elderly persons maltreated by their caregiver, youths who are bullied by other youths, and people of all ages who inflict violence on themselves….. No country, no city, no community is immune. But neither are we powerless against it…… Violence can be prevented….. We owe it to our children – the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free from violence and fear. In order to insure this, we must be tireless in our efforts not only to attain peace, justice and prosperity for country, but also for communities and members of the same family. We must address the roots of violence. Only then will we transform the past century’s legacy from a crushing burden into a cautionary lesson.”

Nelson Mandela

Guam Law Library

Access to legal research materials is essential to the proper functioning of all branches of the Government and to effective legal representation for all segments of the public. The Library was founded for the purpose of "...establishing a territorial law library to provide adequate and readily accessible legal research materials for the growing needs of the Guam judicial system, practicing bar and general public."

Consultant's Report, March 1979

 

THRIVE - A safe haven for women

WOMEN HAVE
A RIGHT TO…

Interpreter Assistance Information

The Judiciary of Guam recognizes the need to improve access and services to the courts. The Superior Court of Guam currently provides interpreter services for language and sign for non-English speaking persons and those who are hearing impaired to insure that all parties can clearly understand proceedings and are able to participate in court programs and services the hearing impaired,  in the following languages:

Jury Service

PURSUANT TO 7 GCA § 22102, IT IS THE POLICY OF THE TERRITORY OF GUAM THAT ALL PERSONS SELECTED FOR JURY SERVICE BE SELECTED AT

RANDOM FROM A FAIR CROSS SECTION OF THE POPULATION OF THE

TERRITORY, AND THAT ALL QUALIFIED CITIZENS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS CHAPTER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR JURY SERVICE ON GRAND OR PETIT JURIES.

Traffic Court

Your ticket requires you to appear on or before the answering date indicated on the bottom of  your ticket.  It is your burden to resolve the ticket before the due date at the bottom of your ticket.  The Department of Motor Vehicle may hold your driver’s license or vehicle registration renewal on hold until tickets are cleared with the court.

Small Claims Court

When you are not able to resolve a problem directly with a another person or a business, Small Claims Court can be an effective option. For disputes within the monetary and subject matter jurisdiction of Small Claims Court, Small Claims Court can be one of the speediest and most effective ways to resolve a dispute. This brochure is written to help you make the best possible use of the Small Claims Court when you find yourself involved in a dispute.