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Municipal Circuit Trial Courts/
Municipal Trial Courts in Cities
Exclusive (1) Exclusive original jurisdiction (1) Petitions for guardianship, Jurisdiction in civil cases. – Regional Exclusive original jurisdiction over Petitions for certiorari, prohibition,
over civil actions and probate custody of children, habeas Trial Courts shall exercise exclusive actions for annulment of mandamus, quo warranto, and
proceedings, testate and corpus in relation to the latter; original jurisdiction: judgements of Regional Trial Courts habeas corpus
intestate, including the grant of (2) Petitions for adoption of (1) In all civil actions in which the
provisional remedies in proper children and the revocation subject of the litigation is
cases, where the value of the thereof; incapable of pecuniary
personal property, estate, or (3) Complaints for annulment of estimation;
amount of the demand does marriage, declaration of nullity (2) In all civil actions which involve
not exceed One hundred of marriage and those relating the title to, or possession of,
thousand pesos (P100,000.00) to marital status and property real property, or any interest
or, in Metro Manila where such relations of husband and wife therein, where the assessed
personal property, estate, or or those living together under value of the property involved
amount of the demand does different status and exceeds Twenty Thousand
not exceed Two hundred agreements, and petitions for Pesos (P20,000.00) or for civil
thousand pesos (P200,000.00), dissolution of conjugal actions in Metro Manila, where
exclusive of interest, damages partnership of gains; such value exceeds Fifty
of whatever kind, attorney's (4) Petitions for support and/or Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00),
fees, litigation expenses, and acknowledgment; except actions for forcible
costs, the amount of which (5) Summary judicial proceedings entry into and unlawful
must be specifically alleged: brought under the provisions detainer of lands or buildings,
Provided, That interest, of Executive Order No. 209, original jurisdiction over which
damages of whatever kind, otherwise known as the is conferred upon the
attorney's fees, litigation "Family Code of the Metropolitan Trial Courts,
expenses, and costs shall be Philippines"; Municipal Trial Courts, and
included in the determination (6) Petitions for declaration of Municipal Circuit Trial Courts;
of the filing fees: Provided, status of children as (3) In all actions in admiralty and
further, That where there are abandoned, dependent o maritime jurisdiction where
several claims or causes of neglected children, petitions the demand or claim exceeds,
actions between the same or for voluntary or involuntary P300,000.00 or, in Metro
different parties, embodied in commitment of children; the Manila, where such demand or
the same complaint, the suspension, termination, or claim exceeds P400,000.00; "
amount of the demand shall be restoration of parental (4) In all matters of probate, both
the totality of the claims in all authority and other cases testate and intestate, where
the causes of action, cognizable under Presidential the gross value of the estate
irrespective of whether the Decree No. 603, Executive exceeds One hundred
causes of action arose out of Order No. 56, (Series of 1986), thousand pesos (P100,000.00)
Municipal Trial Court/
Metropolitan Trial Courts/ Family Courts Regional Trial Courts Court of Appeals Supreme Court
Municipal Circuit Trial Courts/
Municipal Trial Courts in Cities
Concurrent Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court have Concurrent Jurisdiction over
petitions for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus against;
a) Regional Trial Courts
b) Civil Service Commission
c) Central Board of Assessments Appeals
d) National Labor Relations Commission
e) Other quasi-judicial agencies
The Regional Trial Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court have concurrent jurisdiction:
a) over petitions for certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus against RTC
b) quo warranto and habeas corpus
With the Supreme Court: With the Regional Trial Court
Exercise original jurisdiction over Exercise original jurisdiction over
cases affecting ambassadors, other cases affecting ambassadors, other
public ministers and consuls public ministers and consuls
Appellate Regional Trial Courts shall exercise (1) Exclusive appellate jurisdiction (1) Petitions for Review on
appellate jurisdiction over all cases over all final judgements, Certiorari against:
decided by Metropolitan Trial resolutions, orders or awards if - Court of Appeals
Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, and Regional Trial Courts; - Court of Tax Appeals
Municipal Circuit Trial Courts in (2) Appeal by Petition for Review - Sandiganbayan
their respective territorial from quasi-judicial agencies, - RTC involving cases that
jurisdictions. Such cases shall be instrumentalities, boards or Review, revise, reverse,
decided on the basis of the entire commission, including the modify, or affirm on appeal
record of the proceedings had in Securities and Exchange or certiorari, as the law or
the court of origin and such Commission, the Social Security the Rules of Court may
memoranda and/or briefs as may Commission, the Employees provide, final judgments
be submitted by the parties or Compensation Commission and and orders of lower courts
required by the Regional Trial the Civil Service Commission; (2) All cases in which the
Courts. The decision of the Regional (3) Petitions for Review from the constitutionality or validity of
Trial Courts in such cases shall be RTC to cases appealed thereto any treaty, international or
appealable by petition for review to from lower courts; executive agreement, law,
the presidential decree,
Note: Except those falling within the proclamation, order,
Court of Appeals which may give it appellate jurisdiction of the instruction, ordinance, or
due course only when the petition Supreme Court in accordance with regulation is in question.
shows prima facie that the lower the Constitution, the Labor Code of (3) All cases involving the legality
court has committed an error of fact the Philippines under Presidential of any tax, impost, assessment,
or law that will warrant a reversal or Decree No. 442, as amended, the or toll, or any penalty imposed
Municipal Trial Court/
Metropolitan Trial Courts/ Family Courts Regional Trial Courts Court of Appeals Supreme Court
Municipal Circuit Trial Courts/
Municipal Trial Courts in Cities
the absent Regional Trial Judges sit. and agencies, and/or such other
special cases as the Supreme Court
may determine in the interest of a
speedy and efficient administration
of justice.
Jurisdiction in In Metropolitan Trial Courts and (1) The Supreme Court, sitting en
Other Cases Municipal Trial Courts with at least banc, shall be the sole judge
two branches, the Supreme Court of all contests relating to the
may designate one or more election, returns, and
branches thereof to try exclusively qualifications of the President
forcible entry and unlawful detainer or Vice-President, and may
cases, those involving violations of promulgate its rules for the
traffic laws, rules and regulations, purpose.
violations of the rental law, and (2) The Supreme Court may
such other cases requiring summary review, in an appropriate
disposition as the Supreme Court proceeding filed by any
may determine. The Supreme Court citizen, the sufficiency of the
shall adopt special rules or factual basis of the
procedures applicable to such cases proclamation of martial law or
in order to achieve an expeditious the suspension of the
and inexpensive determination privilege of the writ of habeas
thereof without regard to technical corpus or the extension
rules. Such simplified procedures thereof, and must promulgate
may provide that affidavits and its decision thereon within
counter-affidavits may be admitted thirty days from its filing.
in lieu of oral testimony and that
the periods for filing pleadings shall
be non-extendible.