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Monday, October 03, 2011

Heirs and inheritance (Part 7): Is property acquired before marriage the exclusive property of each spouse or does it belong to both spouses?

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Question: “I got married in 2001; some people in an online forum told me that properties acquired when I was single and titled in my name a...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Precautions in buying real estate

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(Note: This post is part of my August 2009 article “ Guidelines and precautions in buying church property ” in another blog. The shortened v...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Heirs and inheritance (Part 6): Settle the estate of your deceased spouse before marrying again

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Related posts: Heirs and inheritance (Part 1): If your spouse dies without a last will, who will inherit? Heirs and inheritance (Part 2)...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Heirs and inheritance (Part 5): The right of legitimate children to inherit

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Related posts: Disinheriting children and descendants, legitimate as well as illegitimate If a wife gets pregnant by a man not her husba...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Heirs and inheritance (Part 4): Who inherits from an illegitimate child?

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Related posts: Heirs and inheritance (Part 1): If your spouse dies without a last will, who will inherit? Heirs and inheritance (Part 2)...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Heirs and inheritance (Part 3): Rights of illegitimate children when their parent dies without a last will

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Related posts: Article 176 of the Family Code: computing the legitimes of legitimate and illegitimate children; an illegitimate child ge...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Unfair credit card debt collection practices and their sanctions under BSP Circular No. 702, Series of 2010

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In my blog post titled “Did the Supreme Court order all credit card companies to reduce their interest rate of 3% monthly and penalty fee o...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Even if Filipinos get married abroad where divorce is legal, they cannot later on get a divorce that is recognized here in the Philippines

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Summary: Filipinos who get married in countries where divorce is valid cannot obtain a divorce later on, because of Article 15 of the New ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Legal Procedures 26: After the last pleading or motion

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Supreme Court materials on the new system known as “Face-to-Face Trial” A.M. No. 14-03-02-SC, March 8, 2014 that’s meant to ...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

BSP Circular No. 702, Series of 2010 on protection of credit card holders (Plain English / Plain Language revisions)

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US laws with subjective and objective criteria for readability: [1] Paragraph (5) of the Readable language in insurance policies (Florid...