Legal Question in Family Law in Philippines

what are my rights as a legal wife without us a child over to my husband who has a child to another woman and the child was acknowledge by my spouse.


Asked on 1/25/12, 11:28 am

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VOLTAIRE T. DUANO VOLTAIRE T. DUANO LAW OFFICE

You are entitled to support from your husband. On the other hand, you can initiate a criminal complaint for violation of RA 9262 known as violence against woman and their children. The acts and omissions of your husband by way of failing to give you support and having an extra-marital affair (and siring a child) constitute economic and psychological violence, respectively.

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Answered on 2/01/12, 9:12 pm


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