FAMILY/FAMILY RELATIONS

  • Title/Date Filed: House Bill No. 243
    An Act Repealing Arts. 333 And 334 And Amending Art 344 Of Act 3815, As Amended, Otherwise Known As The RPC, And Defining The Crime Of Marital Infidelity
    (Filed July 02, 2001)
    Status: For Initial Committee Deliberation
    Main Features:
    - This bill seeks to correct the seeming disparity in the treatment of husbands and wives in penalizing "acts of infidelity" by changing Arts. 333 & 334 of the RPC defining concubinage and adultery into a single crime of "marital infidelity"


  • Title/Date Filed: House Bill No. 3180
    An Act Amending Art. 13, 40, 48, 52, 54 And 99 Of Executive Order 209, As Amended, Otherwise Known As The Family Code Of The Philippines
    (Filed September 20, 2001)
    Status: 1st Committee Hearing Deferred
    Pending with Revision of Laws
    Main Features:
    - The Family Code is amended by adding the Church's Declaration of Nullity of a person's previous marriage, as alternative to a judicial decree of annulment of marriage, before he or she shall be permitted to contract a subsequent second marriage

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LOCAL BILLS
CRIMINAL LAW
CONVERGENCE POLICY
FILMS
FAMILY/FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
FOREIGN POLICY/FOREIGN RELATIONS
EDUCATION/YOUTH
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC UTILITIES/ENERGY
LABOR and OFW RELATED LAWS
ELECTION LAWS and PARTYLIST SYSTEM
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ENTERTAINMENT
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TAXATION
AGRICULTURE
COMMERCE/CONSUMER PROTECTION
BUDGET/ALLOCATION
MARITIME LAW