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Persons and Family Notes
Persons and Family Notes
Persons and Family Notes
#3. What are the exceptions to the rule that laws shall have no
retroactive effect? The following are the exceptions to the rule
that laws shall have no retroactive effect:
#6. What are the exceptions to the rule that an act executed
against provisions of mandatory or prohibitory laws shall be
void?
#7. What is a waiver?
It is the intentional relinquishment of a known right or such
conduct as warrants an inference of
#11. What are the requisites of a valid waiver? The following are
the requisites of a valid waiver:
thereof.
#13. What are the types of repeal? Define each.
1. Capacity to succeed;
2. Intrinsic Validity of testamentary provisions;
3. Amount of successional rights; and
4. Order of succession.
#20. What are the rules to follow when the court is confronted
with a case involving a foreign element? If the court is faced
with a case involving a foreign element, it should first
determine:
When the proper foreign law has not been properly proved, the
court of the forum may presume that said foreign law is the
same as the law of the forum that said court can now apply.
It applies when the foreign law is not alleged or if alleged, it is
not proved. #24. What is renvoi doctrine?
Where the conflict rules of the forum refer to a foreign law, and
the latter refers it back to the internal law, the law of the forum
shall apply.
#25. What will the Courts do, if it is confronted with a case with
a “Renvoi” problem? The Court has the following options: