This is a historic ruling for the Philippines. The court reinterpreted article 992 of the civil code in favour of all blood relatives and criticised the terms “legitimate” and “illegitimate”. Manila ...

Dear PAO, After my father passed away in 2021, we filed a petition for the probate of his last will and testament, which he ...

MANILA, Philippines — For Sen. Robinhood Padilla, it is “high time” for the Catholic-majority Philippines to start giving same-sex couples the same rights married straight couples have long enjoyed ...

In our last article, “The easiest way to legally disinherit an heir”, we discussed that a holographic will, which is a will written, dated, and signed entirely by the hand of the testator, would be ...

(Manila) – Philippine authorities are filing baseless terrorism-financing charges against civil society groups and activists, apparently to be removed from the “grey list” of a global terrorism ...