Archive for August, 2009

ANNULMENT AND THE CHRISTIAN LAWYER

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

I do not know if this blog is the proper place or the opportunity to say something about the holiness of marriage and whether annulment or divorce is antithetical to this concept. After all, a lawyer’s blog is expected to promote a service for a fee. But then again, lawyers believe it or not are [...]

THE BANALITY OF PHILIPPINE POLITICS

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

After spending almost four months in the United States , I planed to Manila while the final rites on the late President Corazon Aquino were being held at the Manila Cathedral. She was the guest speaker at my graduation from the Ateneo School of Law way back in 1988, and I could still recall the [...]

Res Adjudicata and Annulment in the Philippines

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

An interesting situationer was posed to me by a colleague: What if annulment were denied , can the petitioner at a later time refile for annulment on the ground of a change in the situation of the parties, as when the other has left the country and has not complied with his/her marital obligations??Normally, civil [...]