Family Court

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…

Can you get an annulment through the Public Attorney’s Office for free? Here is exactly who qualifies for PAO’s indigency and merit tests, what documents you need, how the application process works, and what PAO’s free representation does and does not cover.

Philippine law recognizes only six specific grounds to annul a voidable marriage under Article 45 of the Family Code. This guide explains each ground, what counts as fraud under Article 46, who may file and by when under Article 47, and how these differ from a void marriage.