24/10/2020
There is no divorce in the Philippines. However, a marriage may be annulled in the Philippines for any of the following causes, existing at the time of the marriage:
• Either party was eighteen years of age or over but below twenty-one, and the marriage was solemnized without the consent of the parents, UNLESS after attaining the age of twenty-one, such party freely cohabited with the other and both lived together as husband and wife.
• That either party was of unsound mind, UNLESS such party after coming to reason, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife.
• That the consent of either party was obtained by fraud, UNLESS such party afterwards, with full knowledge of the facts constituting the fraud, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife.
• That the consent of either party was obtained by force, intimidation or undue influence, UNLESS the same having disappeared or ceased, such party thereafter freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife.
• That either party was physically incapable of consummating the marriage with the other, and such incapacity continues and appears to be incurable.
• That either party was afflicted with a sexually-transmissible disease found to be serious and appears to be incurable.
With regard to Item 3 above, any of the following circumstances shall constitute fraud:
a. Non-disclosure of a previous conviction by final judgment of the other party of a crime involving moral turpitude.
b. Concealment by the wife of the fact that at the time of the marriage, she was pregnant by a man other than her husband.
c. Concealment of sexually transmissible disease, regardless of its nature, existing at the time of the marriage.
d. Concealment of drug addiction, habitual alcoholism or homosexuality or lesbianism existing at the time of the marriage.