Short answer. Possibly, yes. The law lists intriguing to cause another to be alienated from his friends as an act that produces a cause of action for damages, prevention, and other relief — even where the conduct is not a crime, deliberately turning your friends against you can support a civil claim.
What the law says
Intriguing to cause another to be alienated from his friends
Civil Code, Article 26 — Respect for Dignity, Privacy and Peace of Mind. Read the full provision →
A civil remedy even without a crime
The provision opens with a general duty — every person must respect the dignity, personality, privacy and peace of mind of others — then lists specific acts that breach it and create a cause of action for damages, prevention, and other relief, expressly though they may not constitute a criminal offense. You do not need what happened to be a crime for it to give rise to a civil claim under this article.
Your situation matches one of the listed acts directly
The third act named on the list is intriguing to cause another to be alienated from his friends. Someone deliberately scheming or maneuvering to turn your friends against you is exactly the conduct this phrase describes — the provision does not require you to stretch a general privacy or dignity concept to reach it; that particular form of interference with your social life is named specifically on its own.
What 'intriguing' implies about the conduct required
The word carries a sense of scheming or deliberate maneuvering, not simply someone else forming an unfavorable opinion of you on their own or a friendship fading naturally. What the provision targets is purposeful conduct aimed at causing the alienation, which is why the facts of how your friends actually came to distance themselves from you matter to whether this provision fits.
This sits alongside other protections in the same article
The same article also covers prying into someone's residence, meddling with private life or family relations, and vexing or humiliating someone over personal conditions like religious belief or place of birth. If the person's conduct toward you goes beyond just alienating your friends, it is worth considering whether any of those related acts also describe the full pattern of what has been done to you.
Cases citing this provision
These Supreme Court decisions cite the provision above. We list them so you can read them yourself; the summaries of what each decided are not ours to give.
- MVRS Publications, Inc., et al. vs. Islamic Da'Wah Council of the Philippines, Inc., et al, G.R. No. 135306, January 28, 2003 — read the decision on LawPhil →
- Sps. Melchor and Yolanda Dorao vs. Sps. BBB and CCC, By Themselves and as Natural Guardians of Their Minor Daughter Aaa, G.R. No. 235737, April 26, 2023 — read the decision on LawPhil →
- Zenaida R. Gregorio vs. Court of Appeals, et al, G.R. No. 179799, September 11, 2009 — read the decision on LawPhil →
- RCPI vs. Alfonso Verchez, et al, G.R. No. 164349, January 31, 2006 — read the decision on LawPhil →