Text of the provision

Art. 249. Petitions filed under Articles 223, 225 and 235 of this Code involving parental authority shall be verified.

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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

This opens the second summary chapter, on incidents involving parental authority. It routes three kinds of petition into the summary track: those under Article 223 (disciplinary measures over a child), Article 225 (the bond for a parent-guardian of the child's property), and Article 235 (an emancipation incident under the pre-1989 rules).

The single requirement stated here is that each such petition must be verified — sworn to as true — a modest formality that opens the streamlined process the rest of this chapter details.

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Cases interpreting this article

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