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ADULTERY

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• Adultery is committed by any married woman who shall have sexual
intercourse with a man not her husband and by the man who has
carnal knowledge of her knowing her to be married, even if the
marriage be subsequently declared void. Adultery shall be punished
by prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods.Jun 30,
2017
• To successfully prosecute them of the crime of adultery,
• you need to prove the following elements:
• 1) that the woman is married;
• 2) that she has sexual intercourse with a man not her husband; and
• 3) that as regards the man with whom she has sexual intercourse, he
must know her to be married (
• Adultery is committed by a wife and should be charged together with
the other man,
• while concubinage is committed by a husband and should be charged
together with the other woman or concubine. 
CONCUBINAGE
• The crime of concubinage can be committed only by a husband and
his concubine, but it requires that the wife must prove that her
husband has kept a mistress in the conjugal dwelling,
• or has had sexual intercourse under “scandalous circumstances”
• or lived together with his mistress in any other place.N

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