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Legal Information: Guam

Custody

Updated: 
October 31, 2023

Can grandparents or other non-parents get visitation rights?

The judge in a custody case can award visitation to grandparents, as well as any other person interested in the welfare of the child. As with any custody decision, this can only be done if this visitation is in your child’s best interests.1

The law also requires the judge to include in a custody/visitation order that preference for childcare is given to the child’s non-custodial parent and then grandparents, even if the grandparent has not filed a separate petition for visitation. Again, this can only be done as long as it is would not be against the child’s best interests.2

1 19 Guam Code § 8404(1)(g)
2 19 Guam Code § 8404(1)(h)(5)