False marriage annulment claims go viral in Catholic-majority Philippines

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🇵🇭 False marriage annulment claims go viral in Catholic-majority Philippines

"Finally. We've waited too long for this," one user said.The posts are false, multiple lawyers told AFP."There is no magic number of years of separation that allows a couple to get an 'annulment'," Katrina Legarda, a prominent Filipino lawyer who specialises in family law, told AFP.-- the law that governs family relations in the country.

According to the law, an annulment may be granted if either spouse was married between 18 to 21 years old but without parental consent; of"unsound mind"; forced to marry through fraud or intimidation; physically incapable of consummating the marriage; or is afflicted with a serious sexually-transmissible disease that appears to be incurable.to include"at least five years" of separation in the grounds for getting a marriage annulled.languished at the lowest committee level.

The Family Code requires that courts hearing all annulment cases"take steps to prevent collusion" between the spouses. "A judge who circumvents the trial proper under the rule will certainly be held administratively liable," Avila said.

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