SHERELYN F.

VILLANUEVA

BLOG 1: DECLARATION OF ABSOLUTE NULLITY OF MARRIAGE

LINK OF THE BLOG:
https://lawonfamilyrelations.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/declaration-of-
absolute-nullity-of-marriage/

DESCRIPTION: Divorce is not recognize in the Philippines, however,

nullification of marriage may file and recognize here. Juan Malakas
seeks for the nullification of his marriage with Maria Maganda. The
ceremony was solemnized by virtue of Article 34 of the Family Code that
the parties cohabited for at least five years, however, counted back from
the date of the Affidavit stating that they have lived together as husband
and wife would make then petitioner only sixteen (16) years old. With the
perjured affidavit of cohabitation, and there being no valid marriage
license, the marriage is void ab initio under Article 3 (2) in relation to
Article 4 and 35 (3) of the Family Code.
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BLOG 2: ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE UNDER PARAGRAPH

NUMBER 2 OF ARTICLE 46 OF THE FAMILY CODE

LINK OF THE BLOG:

https://lawonfamilyrelations.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/annulment-of-
marriage-under-paragraph-number-2-of-article-46-of-the-family-code/

DESCRIPTION: This case involves the Annulment of marriage of

Bokyong
Tapang and Bakyang Bait who got married on December 25, 2011 on
the ground of fraud under paragraph number 2 of Article 46 of the Family
Code of the Philippines. It is clear that at the time of their marriage,
Bakyang Bait had misrepresented to Bokyong Tapang that she was then
six (6) months pregnant and that it was Bokyong Tapang who was the
father of the child in her womb when, it truth, it was by another man,
thereby committing fraud by concealment of her pregnancy by another
man, which is constitutive of a ground for annulment of their marriage
under Article 45 (3) in relation to Article 46 (2) of the Family Code .