- Statute
- Philippine Family Code
- Article
- Art. 38
- Topic
- Void marriages against public policy
- Status
- In force
- Year
- 1987
The provision
The following marriages shall be void from the beginning for reasons of public policy: (1) Between collateral blood relatives whether legitimate or illegitimate, up to the fourth civil degree; (2) Between step-parents and step-children; (3) Between parents-in-law and children-in-law; (4) Between the adopting parent and the adopted child; (5) Between the surviving spouse of the adopting parent and the adopted child; (6) Between the surviving spouse of the adopted child and the adopter; (7) Between an adopted child and a legitimate child of the adopter; (8) Between adopted children of the same adopter; and (9) Between parties where one, with the intention to marry the other, killed that other person's spouse, or his or her own spouse. (82)
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
Declares certain marriages void from the start on public-policy grounds, regardless of good faith—including marriages between blood relatives up to the fourth civil degree, between step- and in-law relations, various adopter/adopted combinations, and where one party killed the other's or their own spouse in order to marry. Such unions never had legal effect.
An editorially maintained plain-language explanation of this provision — not legal advice.