We are often asked about legal separation by people who actually need an annulment or declaration of nullity of marriage. The reason is they may think that these all mean the same thing or that they have the same practical effect...
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A simpler way to divide Conjugal Property
Legal separation can be a clumsy, acrimonious way to end marriage relations. It falls short of actual divorce, and it is a problematic process even as a way to divide conjugal properties between husband and wife...
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Recognition of Foreign Divorce in the Philippines (Process)
Recognition of Foreign Divorce in the Philippines is a Judicial Process where both the foreign divorce and the foreign divorce law need to be proven in Court. You will need to file a Petition for Recognition of Foreign Divorce wit...
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Conjugal Property Philippines
What is Conjugal Property and how is it applied if you married under Absolute Community of Property or Conjugal Partnership of Gains? Is Complete Separation of Property really a complete separation? Should I do a Pre-Nup to pr...
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Residency requirements for Naturalization as a Philippine citizen
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Is the adoption of a Filipino child in another country recognized in the Philippines?
Is a US adoption valid in the Philippines? Let us say that the adoption of a Filipino child took place in the United States or Canada or Europe for that matter. Can that adoption be recognized in the Philippines so as to change th...
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