From Van Dorn to Manalo: An Analysis of the Court’s Evolving Doctrine in the Recognition of Foreign Divorce Decrees in Mixed Marriages

• Main Author: Sta. Maria, Amparita
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Philippines Supreme Court; Intermarriage; Domestic relations; Civil law; Legal status of citizens; Philippines; Law
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/ateneo-school-of-law-pubs/8; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=ateneo-school-of-law-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Outside the Vatican, the Philippines is the only country that proscribes divorce. In the Family Code of the Philippines (Family Code), the sole provision that talks about divorce and of Filipino citizens possibly benefitting from this manner of severing marriage is Article 26. However, like other pr...