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The House of Representatives approved House Bill 9349, or the Absolute Divorce Bill, on third and final reading on May 22, sparking debates on whether the Philippines should remain as one of only two countries in the world without a divorce law.The current Family Code in the Philippines only provides that married couples can only separate by three modes: legal separation, annulment of marriage, and declaration of nullity of marriage.
The Family Code does not say anything about whether the concealment on the part of the husband of the fact that he impregnated a woman other than his wife at the time of the marriage should be considered a ground for annulment, legal separation or declaration of nullity of marriage.In contrast, the divorce bill explicitly states that marital infidelity or perversion or having a child with another person other than one’s spouse during the marriage is a ground for divorce.
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