Text of the provision

Art. 22. The marriage certificate, in which the parties shall declare that they take each other as husband and wife, shall also state:

(1) The full name, sex and age of each contracting party;

(2) Their citizenship, religion and habitual residence;

(3) The date and precise time of the celebration of the marriage;

(4) That the proper marriage license has been issued according to law, except in marriage provided for in Chapter 2 of this Title;

(5) That either or both of the contracting parties have secured the parental consent in appropriate cases;

(6) That either or both of the contracting parties have complied with the legal requirement regarding parental advice in appropriate cases; and

(7) That the parties have entered into marriage settlement, if any, attaching a copy thereof.

(67a)

Family Code of the Philippines, Executive Order No. 209, approved July 6, 1987. The Code took effect on August 3, 1988 (Republic v. Orbecido III, G.R. No. 154380, October 5, 2005). Reproduced in full.

What this article means

Article 22 lists what the marriage certificate itself must state, beyond the parties' declaration (required by Article 6) that they take each other as husband and wife: identifying details of each party, the date and precise time of the ceremony, confirmation that a proper license issued (or that the marriage fell within a Chapter 2 exemption), whether parental consent or parental advice was required and given, and whether the parties entered into a marriage settlement, with a copy attached if so.

The certificate is therefore more than a record of the ceremony — it is where the license, the parental-consent or -advice requirement, and the property regime the parties chose are all confirmed to have been satisfied in one document.

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Cases interpreting this article

Note. The text of the provision above is reproduced in full from the official enactment. The annotation, case summaries and commentary around it are the work of Vivas & Nobles Law Office and are general legal information, not legal advice. Whether this provision applies to a particular marriage depends on facts that only a lawyer reviewing your situation can assess.