Family Code of the Philippines Full

This section outlines the essential and formal requisites for a valid marriage in the Philippines, including legal capacity, free consent, authority of the solemnizing officer, a valid marriage license (with exceptions), and a marriage ceremony. It details who can solemnize marriages and where they must be solemnized. Special provisions are made for marriages abroad involving Filipino citizens.

This part details the application process for a marriage license, including required documents like birth and baptismal certificates. It also covers parental consent for parties aged 18-21, parental advice for those aged 21-25, and the process for posting notices. Exemptions for indigents and foreigners' requirements are also discussed, along with the validity period of the license and duties of the solemnizing officer.

This segment covers marriages that do not require a license, such as those in 'articulo mortis' (at the point of death), in remote places, among certain cultural communities, and for couples who have cohabited for at least five years without legal impediment. It then transitions to defining marriages that are void from the beginning, including those involving minors, unauthorized solemnizers (with exceptions), lack of license (with exceptions), bigamous marriages (with exceptions), and those based on psychological incapacity, incest, or public policy reasons.

This section specifies the grounds for annulment, such as lack of parental consent for minors, unsound mind, fraud, force/intimidation/undue influence, physical incapacity, or sexually transmissible diseases. It also enumerates what constitutes fraud. The subsequent discussion outlines the grounds for legal separation, including physical violence, moral pressure, attempts to corrupt a child, imprisonment of more than six years, drug addiction/alcoholism, lesbianism/homosexuality, bigamous marriage, sexual infidelity, or abandonment.

This segment details grounds for denying a petition for legal separation, such as condonation or collusion, and the prescriptive period for filing. It clarifies that legal separation does not sever marriage bonds but dissolves the absolute community or conjugal partnership, with forfeiture of shares for the offending spouse. Consequences of reconciliation, including the revival of property regimes, are also discussed.

This part outlines the mutual obligations of spouses, including living together, observing love and fidelity, and rendering mutual help and support. It covers the determination of family domicile, joint responsibility for family support, management of the household, and the exercise of professions or businesses, with provisions for court intervention in cases of disagreement or neglect.

This section introduces the general provisions on property relations, emphasizing marriage settlements and the default regime of absolute community of property. It defines donations by reason of marriage, including their revocation. It also details what constitutes community property and what is excluded from it, such as property acquired by gratuitous title or for personal use (excluding jewelry).

This part discusses the termination of the absolute community of property due to death, legal separation, annulment, or judicial separation of property. It also addresses the effects of separation in fact. It then introduces the conjugal partnership of gains, outlining its principles where spouses place proceeds, products, fruits, and income from their separate properties into a common fund, with net gains divided equally upon dissolution.

This segment specifies what constitutes the exclusive property of each spouse within a conjugal partnership of gains. It details the joint administration and enjoyment of conjugal property, with mechanisms for resolving disagreements and provisions for sole administration in certain cases. It also prohibits donations of conjugal property without consent (with exceptions for moderate gifts), and outlines the termination of the conjugal partnership, as well as the effects of separation in fact and spousal abandonment.

This part covers judicial separation of property, outlining sufficient causes for such an order, including civil interdiction, judicial declaration of absence, loss of parental authority, abandonment, abuse of administrative power, or de facto separation for at least one year. It then describes the regime of separation of property, where each spouse owns, disposes of, and administers their separate estate. Finally, it addresses property regimes for unions without marriage, distinguishing between couples capacitated to marry and other cohabitations, and outlining how property is acquired and divided, including rules on forfeiture for bad faith.

This section emphasizes the family as the foundation of the nation, governed by law, and outlines family relations. It mandates earnest efforts for compromise in family disputes before resorting to legal action. It also introduces the concept of the family home as the dwelling house where the family resides, constituted jointly by spouses or by an unmarried head of family.

This discussion defines legitimate children, including those conceived through artificial insemination, and outlines grounds for impugning legitimacy, such as physical impossibility of sexual intercourse or scientific reasons. It also explains rules for child legitimacy when a mother remarries after termination of a previous marriage. It then defines illegitimate children and specifies ways to establish illegitimate affiliation and their rights, including support and successional rights. Lastly, it covers legitimation through subsequent valid marriage, its effects, and how it can be impugned.

This segment defines 'support' comprehensively, including sustenance, dwelling, clothing, medical attendance, education, and transportation, considering the family's financial capacity. It lists individuals obliged to support each other (spouses, ascendants, descendants, siblings) and the order of liability. It also details how parental authority and responsibility are exercised by parents, jointly, and in cases of absence or death. Provisions for court designation of parental authority in cases of separation and the role of grandparents are included.

This part specifies who exercises substitute parental authority in the absence of parents or a guardian, typically grandparents, older siblings, or actual custodians. It also discusses special parental authority of schools and institutions over minors. It outlines the extensive rights and duties of parents, including care, education, moral guidance, and representation. It details civil liability of parents for the acts of their unemancipated children and procedures for disciplinary measures or appointment of guardians for a child's property, including requirements for bonds.

This section specifies when parental authority terminates permanently (death of parent/child, emancipation) or conditionally (adoption, appointment of guardian, abandonment, judicial declaration). It then defines emancipation, which occurs upon reaching majority (21 years old), marriage of a minor, or by recorded agreement. The effects of emancipation, particularly on parental authority and a child's capacity for civil life, are also explained, along with provisions for reviving parental authority if a minor's marriage or agreement is annulled.

This final section introduces summary judicial proceedings for family law cases, applicable to situations like separation in fact, abandonment, and incidents involving parental authority. It outlines the process for seeking judicial authorization for transactions when a spouse's consent is withheld, requiring a verified petition and court approval of the final deed. It also specifies that claims for damages must be litigated in separate actions and identifies the courts with jurisdiction over such petitions.