Legal Question in Family Law in Philippines
are you guilty of the case concubinage in the philippines, even your wife leave you and after a year you found a new girl and had a baby?ty..........
1 Answer from Attorneys
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.