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The Philippines Moves Closer To Legalizing Divorce With Approved Bill© Provided by Cosmopolitan Philippines
The Philippines remains the only country in the world, aside from the Vatican, where divorce does not legally exist. However, that might soon come to an end as the House Bill (HB) 9349, or the proposed Absolute Divorce Act has been approved and is now advancing to its final reading.
With 126 lawmakers voting in favor, 109 against, and 20 abstaining, the House of Representatives approved the House Bill No. 9349, or The Absolute Divorce Act, on its third and final reading, just two months after the House Committee on Population and Family Relations referred it.
As reported by You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., The proposed Divorce bill under the Absolute Divorce Act introduces the following You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.:
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any thoughts about DIVORCE BILL na anytime now eh pwedeng pwede nang maging daan to legal separation?.
is the idiom collect and collect until you select is true?
The Philippines Moves Closer To Legalizing Divorce With Approved Bill© Provided by Cosmopolitan Philippines
The Philippines remains the only country in the world, aside from the Vatican, where divorce does not legally exist. However, that might soon come to an end as the House Bill (HB) 9349, or the proposed Absolute Divorce Act has been approved and is now advancing to its final reading.
With 126 lawmakers voting in favor, 109 against, and 20 abstaining, the House of Representatives approved the House Bill No. 9349, or The Absolute Divorce Act, on its third and final reading, just two months after the House Committee on Population and Family Relations referred it.
As reported by You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., The proposed Divorce bill under the Absolute Divorce Act introduces the following You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.:
- Physical violence or grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner;
- Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the petitioner to change religious or political affiliation;
- Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such corruption or inducement;
- Final judgment sentencing the respondent to imprisonment of more than six (6) years, even if pardoned;
- Drug addiction or habitual *******ism or chronic ******** of the respondent;
- Homosexuality of the respondent;
- Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines or abroad;
- Marital infidelity or perversion or having a child with another person other than one’s spouse during the marriage, except when upon the mutual agreement of the spouses, a child is born to them through in vitro fertilization or a similar procedure or when the wife bears a child after being a victim of rape;
- Attempt by the respondent against the life of the petitioner, a common child or a child of the petitioner;
- Abandonment of petitioner by respondent without justifiable cause for more than one (1) year;
- When the spouses are legally separated by judicial decree for more than two (2) years, either spouse can petition the proper Family Court for an absolute divorce based on said judicial decree of legal separation.
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any thoughts about DIVORCE BILL na anytime now eh pwedeng pwede nang maging daan to legal separation?.
is the idiom collect and collect until you select is true?