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.
Text of the provision
Sec. 2. Entries subject to cancellation or correction. — Upon good and valid grounds, the following entries in the civil register may be cancelled or corrected: (a) births; (b) marriages; (c) deaths; (d) legal separations; (e) judgments of annulments of marriage; (f) judgments declaring marriages void from the beginning; (g) legitimations; (h) adoptions; (i) acknowledgments of natural children; (j) naturalization (k) election, loss or recovery of citizenship (l) civil interdiction; (m) judicial determination of filiation; voluntary emancipation of a minor; and (o) changes of name.
Rules of Court, Rule 108, Section 2. 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.
About this section
This is Section 2 of Rule 108 (Cancellation Or Correction Of Entries In The Civil Registry) of the Rules of Court of the Philippines — the Special Proceedings rules (Rules 72–109), in force since January 1, 1964. The text above is reproduced verbatim.
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