Legal Question in Family Law in Philippines

Under the law concubinage can be committed in three ways,fist by keeping a mistress in a conjugal dwelling; second by having sexual intercourse under scandalous circumstances and last by cohabiting (in the ,manner as husband and wife) with the mistress in some other place.

If any of those circumstances have been committed then you can be charged of concubinage. While marital infidelity is not concubinage by itself unless it falls in any of those circumstances, however, the philandering husband can be prosecuted for violation of RA 9262 (Violence Against Women and Their Children). This is because the marital infidelity is a form of psychological violence against the wife.