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…
Does an annulment or nullity case affect your child’s legitimacy? See how Family Code Article 54 protects children after annulment and Article 36 nullity cases in the Philippines, and when it doesn’t.
A final decree of annulment or declaration of nullity settles the marriage’s legal status, but it does not leave the couple’s common children in limbo. Philippine law requires the same court that grants the decree to also rule on who gets custody, how much support each parent owes, and what contact the non-custodial parent keeps…
No Philippine agency automatically garnishes an OFW’s foreign salary for child support. Here are the real legal channels — civil, RA 9262, the Hague Child Support Convention, and the seafarer wage allotment — for collecting support from a parent working overseas.
Can a solo parent take their child abroad without the other parent’s consent? What DSWD requires, what a Solo Parent ID actually proves, and when you need a court order instead.
How Philippine Family Courts can order provisional support pendente lite for a spouse and common children while a declaration of nullity, annulment, or legal separation case is still pending — legal basis, factors, and how to request it.
Philippine procedural rules limit who may file a case to declare a marriage void or voidable. Standing rules, grounds, and prescriptive periods explained under A.M. No. 02-11-10-SC and the Family Code.
Article 48 of the Family Code requires the public prosecutor and the Office of the Solicitor General to guard against collusion and fabricated evidence in every Philippine annulment or nullity case. Here is how that safeguard actually works, stage by stage, and what happens when it fails.
What Philippine courts actually require before authorizing summons by publication in an annulment or nullity case when a spouse cannot be located, including the diligence standard from a 2022 Supreme Court decision.
A marriage where one spouse was already validly married to someone else is not a marriage the law treats as merely flawed — it is void from the moment it was celebrated, and it stays void even if no court ever says so out loud. But “automatically void” does not mean “automatically resolved.” Bigamy carries…