Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III — Photo from Senate of the Philippines/Facebook
MANILA, Philippines— Recognizing foreign divorce decrees involving a Filipino spouse need not be complicated or expensive in the Philippines if a measure filed in the Senate is approved.
The recognition process, not including the appeal, should be resolved within 180 days or six months as proposed in Senate President Pro Tempore Vicente “Tito” Sotto III’s Senate Bill No. 2388 known as the “Administrative Recognition of Foreign Divorce.”
In filing the bill, Sotto cited a provision in the Family Code, which states that, “Where a marriage between a Filipino citizen and a foreigner is validly celebrated and a divorce is thereafter validly obtained abroad by the alien spouse capacitating him or her to remarry, the Filipino spouse shall have capacity to remarry under Philippine law.”
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