The Family Code governs marriage, its nullity and annulment, property relations between spouses, paternity and filiation, adoption, support, parental authority, and the family home. It was approved on July 6, 1987 and amended by Executive Order No. 227.
We are publishing it article by article: the official text of each provision, a plain-language annotation, and the Supreme Court decisions that actually determine how it is read today. Articles are added as they are annotated and reviewed — this is a working library, not a dump.
Title I — Marriage
Chapter 3 — Void and Voidable Marriages
- Article 35 — Marriages void from the beginning. Published.
- Article 36 — Psychological incapacity. Published.
- Article 37 — Incestuous marriages. Published.
- Article 38 — Marriages void for reasons of public policy. Published.
- Article 40 — Judicial declaration required before remarriage. Published.
- Article 41 — Bigamous marriages; presumptive death. Published.
- Article 42 — Reappearance of the absent spouse. Published.
- Article 45 — Grounds for annulment of marriage. Published.
- Article 46 — What constitutes fraud. Published.
- Article 47 — Who may file; prescriptive periods. Published.
- Article 48 — State participation; no default judgment. Published.
Title II — Legal Separation
- Article 55 — Grounds for legal separation. Published.
Title IV, Chapter 7 — Property Regime of Unions Without Marriage
- Article 147 — Property when both partners were capacitated to marry. Published.
- Article 148 — Property when the partners were not capacitated to marry. Published.
Note. The text of each provision is reproduced from the official enactment. Annotations and case summaries are the work of Vivas & Nobles Law Office and are general legal information, not legal advice.