Read with care. A court order is no longer required for every correction of a civil registry entry. Republic Act No. 9048 (2001) and Republic Act No. 10172 (2012) opened an administrative route through the local civil registrar for clerical or typographical errors, for a change of first name, and for the day and month of birth and the sex entry where the error is clerical. Substantial corrections still require the judicial proceeding below.
The sections of Rule 108 of the Rules of Court (Special Proceedings, Rules 72–109), each reproduced verbatim and verified word-for-word against four independently published renderings of the Rules of Court — only text on which at least two independent publishers agree is shown.
- Section 1. Who may file petition
- Section 2. Entries subject to cancellation or correction
- Section 3. Parties
- Section 4. Notice and publication
- Section 5. Opposition
- Section 6. Expediting proceedings
- Section 7. Order
Note. Verbatim rule text with general framing, not legal advice.