Text of the provision

Art. 252. The rules in Chapter 2 hereof shall also govern summary proceedings under this Chapter insofar as they are applicable.

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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

Rather than repeat the whole procedure, this article borrows the Separation-in-Fact rules of Chapter 2 (Articles 239–248) and applies them to parental-authority incidents "insofar as they are applicable." So the preliminary conference without counsel, the summary hearing on affidavits, and the immediately-final judgment all carry over here.

The result is one coherent summary process across the Title, adjusted only where a parental-authority incident genuinely differs from a spousal-consent petition.

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Cases interpreting this article

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