Controlled topic tag for FamilyCode.ph content involving Article 148.
When a live-in partner dies, the surviving partner often assumes that years together, or a house bought side by side, automatically means something comes to them. Philippine law draws a hard line here: being someone’s partner is not the same as being their heir, and the property rules that govern a couple while they are…
Unmarried partners don’t split property 50-50 automatically. See how Family Code Articles 147 and 148 decide ownership, what proof you need, and how to partition jointly acquired property when the relationship ends.
When a Philippine marriage ends in annulment or a declaration of nullity, the property the spouses accumulated does not simply split down the middle by default. Which rule applies depends first on why the marriage is being undone — whether it was a valid marriage annulled for a cause like fraud, or a marriage that…