Each guide below walks through a Philippine legal procedure — the deadlines, offices, and documents that make it move — and every specific it states is cited to the statute, rule, or Department Order that governs it. Read the source for the letter of the law; read the guide for the shape of the process.
Labor and employment
- Appealing a Labor Arbiter's decision to the NLRC: period, bond, and what comes after
- Illegal dismissal and money-claim complaint at the NLRC: the procedure end to end
- Legitimate contracting versus labor-only contracting under the Labor Code
- Single Entry Approach: How to file a Request for Assistance for a labor dispute
- Termination for authorized cause: the 30-day notice to the worker and to DOLE
- Termination for just cause: the two-notice rule and the employee's opportunity to be heard
Other
- After an ejectment complaint is filed: the answer, prohibited pleadings, preliminary conference and judgment
- After filing: summons, the answer, and why a public prosecutor investigates for collusion
- After the decision: finality, appeal, and registering the decree of nullity or annulment
- Appealing a Regional Trial Court decision: the notice of appeal, the periods, and when the trial court lets go
- Appealing an ejectment judgment and staying eviction: the supersedeas bond and monthly deposits
- Arraignment: how soon it must happen, and what has to take place in the courtroom
- Bail: when it's a matter of right, when it's discretionary, and when it isn't available at all
- Filing a criminal complaint: where it goes, and when a preliminary investigation is required
- Filing an annulment or nullity petition: venue, who may sign, and who must be served
- How a final judgment is executed: turning a winning decision into actual payment
- How a preliminary investigation works, step by step, and its ten-day clocks
- How to evict a tenant or occupant: the unlawful detainer case, start to finish
- Pre-trial and trial in an annulment case: what the rule requires the judge to do personally
- You've been served a civil complaint: the deadline to answer and what default means
Property and barangay
- Barangay conciliation (Katarungang Pambarangay): how the process works
- Certification to File Action: what it is, when it issues, and why a case filed without it gets dismissed
- How to annotate an adverse claim on a land title, and how long it lasts
- Local transfer tax on a real property sale: a third tax the closing often misses
- Notice of lis pendens: putting a pending case on the title
- Replacing a lost owner's duplicate certificate of title
- What happens at the registry after you submit a deed of sale for a title transfer
- Which disputes must go through barangay conciliation before court — and which are exempt
Tax and estate
- Capital gains tax on the sale of real property: rate, 30-day return, and the registry checkpoint
- Documentary stamp tax on the deed: rate, base, and the 10-day filing rule
- Filing the donor's tax return: 30-day rule, place, rate and threshold
- Filing the estate tax return: deadline, place, payment and extensions
- The estate tax amnesty: coverage, rate, and why it is no longer an option
Note. This page describes a procedure by reference to the issuances that create it. It is general legal information from Vivas & Nobles Law Office, not legal advice. Deadlines, offices and requirements can shift with new circulars; a lawyer reviewing your specific facts is the safer path than acting on this alone.