USAPANG DIVORCE SA PILIPINAS!

The House of Representatives, through viva voce voting, approved on second reading on Wednesday House Bill 9349 which would institute absolute divorce as an alternative mode of dissolving an irreparably broken or dysfunctional marriage.
The bill, principally authored by Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, provides limited grounds and well-defined judicial procedures for divorce and aims to save children from the pain, stress, and agony brought about by their parents’ marital clashes or irreconcilable differences, as well as grant the divorced spouses the right to marry again for another chance at marital bliss.
Under the bill, troubled couples may file a petition for absolute divorce using the following grounds: 1) legal separation under Article 55 of the Family Code of the Philippines, as modified; 2) annulment of marriage under Article 45 of the Family Code of the Philippines, as modified; 3) separation of the spouses in fact for at least five years at the time the petition for absolute divorce is filed, and reconciliation is highly improbable; 4) psychological incapacity as provided in Article 36 of the Family Code of the Philippines; 5) irreconcilable differences; and 6) domestic or marital abuse to include acts under Republic Act 9262, or the Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004.

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