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Bill to legalise divorce offers hope to Filipino women currently relying on expensive and lengthy annulment process.

As long as the divorce is valid under the foreign spouse's national law, it will be recognized in the Philippines for the Filipino spouse,' the Supreme Court says ...

Divorce obtained abroad even through mutual agreement may be recognized in the Philippines, according to the Supreme Court.

THE Supreme Court ruled that divorces obtained abroad, whether through legal or administrative process or by mutual agreement ...

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday confirmed that foreign divorce decrees do not require judicial proceedings abroad to be recognized in the Philippines. The High Tribunal, sitting en banc, ruled that ...

the Philippine Supreme Court has ruled recently. In a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that in cases of marital infidelity under Republic Act 9262, or the Anti-Violence Against ...

Our Supreme Court and the Catholic Church—the bulwarks of conservatism and tradition—are moving progressively on a crucial ...

The Philippines could be a step closer to passing legislation on marriage dissolution if the word “divorce” was removed from it, Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero said. Speaking to ...

At the time, the late Father Melvin Castro, a leading Catholic official in the Philippines, said the legislation risked ...

Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear ...

Veronica Bebero recalls the despair she felt being interrogated by police inside a locked room at the United States Embassy ...