INSTRUCTIONS:

A. Write down each question as well as your corresponding answers. All answers must be
HANDWRITTEN. Thereafter, take a picture of your answers or scan the same and submit to your
Mayor.

B. The Mayor for each Section will prepare a list of those who have submitted their answers then
provide your professor with the link of the folder.

C. You have until Saturday evening to submit your answers to your respective Class Mayors. The
Class Mayors must ensure that the folder containing the answers of the students is sent to your
professor at the latest midnight of October 2, 2021.

QUESTIONS:

1. May entries in the Birth Certificate as to first name or sex be changed on the ground of
equity? Give your reason.
2. When and how is the sex of a person determined?
3. What are the essential requisites of a valid marriage?
4. How does the law define “legal capacity”?
5. Who are the solemnizing officers?
6. What is the ruling of the Supreme Court in Navarro v. Domagtoy where a judge
solemnizes a marriage outside his/her court’s jurisdiction?
7. What is the effect of failure to comply with the publication requirement in an
application for a marriage license?
8. What are the exceptions to the lex loci celebrationis rule under Article 26 par. 1 of the
Family Code?
9. When is a marriage license not necessary?
10. What are the requisites for the 5-year cohabitation rule to apply?
11. May a Filipino spouse file for recognition of a divorce decree where it was the Filipino spouse of
an alien/foreigner who files for divorce abroad and is granted the same? Why?
12. Where a marriage takes place between two Filipino citizens thereafter one of the spouses
obtains alien citizenship and subsequently files for a divorce in his/her country, may the Filipino
spouse later file in our courts a petition for recognition of divorce decree?
13. What is a marriage fraud in immigration?
14. What is the best evidence of a marriage?
15. What is the terminated affinity rule?
16. What is the continuing affinity rule?
17. The absolute nullity of a void marriage may be invoked for what purposes?
18. If the purpose to invoke a marriage as void is in order to remarry, what is required?
19. If A is marred to B and later files for declaration of absence of B since B has been absent for the
past 5 years, and after grant of the same by the court she marries X what is the status of the
marriage of A and X? Reason
20. What if A is aware that B is alive somewhere but manages to get a declaration of presumptive
death of B in order to marry X, what is the status of the marriage of A and X? Reason
21. What if A had a well-founded belief that B was already dead when he filed the petition for
declaration of presumptive death and later married X, however, X was aware of the
whereabouts of B, what is the status of the marriage of A and X?
22. What constitutes fraud under voidable marriages?
23. What is the triennial cohabitation rule?
24. What is a Donation propter nuptias?
25. When are the parties to a marriage governed by the Conjugal Partnership of Gains (CPG)?
26. When are the parties governed by the Absolute Community of Property (ACP)?
27. How is a family home constituted under the civil code?
28. How is a family home constituted under the Family Code?
29. Who are the beneficiaries of a family home?
30. Who are the children who may be legitimated?
31. What are the grounds to impugn the legitimacy of a child?
32. What is the parental preference rule?
33. What is the maternal preference rule?
34. What is the special parental authority rule?
35. Who and under what instances can an adoption be rescinded?
36. What are the effects of adoption?
37. When may an illegitimate child use the surname of his/her father?
38. Who can be adopted under the Domestic Adoption Law?
39. When can adoption be resorted to under the Inter-Country Adoption Law?
40. What are the changes in psychological incapacity laid down in the case of Tan-Andal versus
Andal?