Filipinos, foreigners, and real estate in the Philippines
A Filipino citizen can own land in the Philippines. A foreigner cannot own land unless he is a former Filipino citizen or he happened to inherit that land...
Disinheritance
Below are the provisions of Philippine Civil Law on Disinheritance for those who need it as reference or who want to see the letter of the law...
Excluded heirs and disinherited children
Can the son question the will and have a rightful share of the property his father left behind?...
Sample mortgage contract
Mortgage agreements should be annotated on the Title to the property at the Register of Deeds in order to be effective against persons who are not party to the contract...
Mortgage contracts in the Philippines
A mortgage is one of the kinds of contracts specially regulated by Philippine law...
Rules of Procedure for Legal Separation
SECTION 1. Scope. – This Rule shall govern petitions for legal separation under the Family Code of the Philippines...
Legal separation in the Philippines
Legal separation is a court approved separation of husband and wife. It is not divorce. Under legal separation, the marital obligations and the property relations between the spouses are ended, but the marriage bond is not dissolv...
Psychological incapacity and proving it in court
Marriage is a peculiar institution in the Philippines, the only country on earth in which there is still no general law on divorce.[...
Do you need a Court declaration that you are an heir before you can protect your inherited property?
Is it always necessary for an heir to institute an inheritance case in Court before she can exercise legal rights to a property which she inherited?...
Corporate officers and Piercing the Veil of Corporate Fiction
To disregard the separate juridical personality of a corporation, the wrongdoing must be established clearly and convincingly. It cannot be presumed.[...
