AG: No court action needed for church records

GUAM
Guam Daily Post

Jasmine Stole | Post News Staff

The attorney general yesterday issued a response to the Department of Land Management reaffirming the course of action taken to correct land records for the controversial Redemptoris Mater Seminary property in Yona.

Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson, in a letter to DLM Director Michael Borja, stated that a court petition was not necessary because there was no objection from the title holder, Archbishop Anthony Apuron, to the changes needed to be made in the four certificates of title. The letter was dated March 31.

At issue is the memorials in the certificates of title that the AG, DLM and former Sen. Robert Klitzkie agree were erroneous. The titles printed in the U’Matuna Si Yu’os late last year did not show a Declaration of Deed of Restriction, which Klitzkie pointed out to DLM in December last year. The Declaration of Deed Restriction was then added to the certificates in favor of the archbishop.

Klitzkie noted that the certificates of title needed to be added in favor of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary as a nonprofit organization. DLM agreed that the certificates were done in error and in January, Borja wrote to Klitzkie and said a court petition would be filed to correct the certificates.

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