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G.R. No. 127406. November 27, 2000.
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* SECOND DIVISION.
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QUISUMBING, J.:
This appeal seeks the reversal of the decision dated July
24, 1996, of the Court of Appeals in C.A.-G.R. CV 37897,
which affirmed the decision of the Regional Trial Court of
Pasig, Branch 160, declaring the marriage contract
between private respondent Edgardo M. Reyes and
petitioner Ofelia P. Ty null and void ab initio. It also
ordered private respondent to pay P15,000.00 as monthly
support for their children Faye Eloise Reyes and Rachel
Anne Reyes.
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1 See also Tison vs. CA, 276 SCRA 582, 593 (1997); Quebral vs. CA, 252
SCRA 353, 365 (1996); Son vs. Son, 251 SCRA 556, 564 (1995); re proof of
facts cited.
2 Rollo, pp. 48-52.
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5 Rollo, p. 47.
6 Rollo, p. 49.
7 G.R. No. 138509, July 31, 2000, 336 SCRA 747.
8 G.R. No. 137110, August 1, 2000, 337 SCRA 122. In his dissenting
and concurring opinion, Justice Vitug opined that the necessity of a
judicial declaration of nullity of a void marriage for the purpose of
remarriage should be held to refer merely to cases where it can be said
that a marriage, at least ostensibly, had taken place. No such judicial
declaration of nullity, in his view, should still be deemed essential when
the “marriage,“ for instance, is between persons of the same sex or when
either or both parties had not at all given consent to the marriage. Indeed,
it is likely that Article 40 of the Family Code has been meant and
intended to refer only to marriages declared void under the provisions of
Articles 35, 36, 37, 38 and 53 thereof.
9 E.O. No. 209, which took effect on August 3, 1988.
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40 of the Family Code. Article 40 of said Code expressly
required a judicial declaration of nullity of marriage—
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Came the Family Code which settled once and for all the
conflicting jurisprudence on the matter. A declaration of absolute
nullity of marriage is now explicitly required either as a cause of
action or a ground for defense. (Art. 39 of the Family Code).
Where the absolute nullity of a previous marriage is sought to be
invoked for purposes of contracting a second marriage, the sole
basis acceptable in law for said projected marriage to be free from
legal infirmity is a final judgment declaring the previous
marriage void. (Family Code, Art. 23
40; See also arts. 11, 13, 42, 44,
48, 50, 52, 54, 86, 99, 147, 148).
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23 Id. at 579.
24 268 SCRA 47 (1997).
25 286 SCRA 495, 530 (1998).
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26 Rollo, p. 51.
27 Tolentino, Arturo M., Commentaries and Jurisprudence on the Civil
Code of the Philippines, Vol. 1, Manila: 1990, p. 223.
28 Among them legal separation, or prosecution for adultery and
concubinage.
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