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Beltran Vs People
Beltran Vs People
Beltran Vs People
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G.R. No. 137567. June 20, 2000.
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* SECOND DIVISION.
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BUENA, J.:
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x x x Assuming that the first marriage was null and void on the
ground alleged by petitioner, that fact would not be material to
the outcome of the criminal case. Parties to the marriage should
not be permitted to judge for themselves its nullity, for the same
must be submitted to the judgment of the competent courts and
only when the nullity of the marriage is so declared can it be held
as void, and so long as there is no such declaration the
presumption is that the marriage exists. Therefore, he who
contracts a second marriage before the judicial declaration of
nullity of the first marriage assumes the risk of being prosecuted
for bigamy.
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Petition dismissed.
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