HB 1043

House·20th Congress·Filed Jul 1, 2025

An Act Providing for Equal Protection of Women as Regards to Annulment on Account of Fraud by Concealment of the Husband That He Has Impregnated a Person Other Than His Wife at the Time of Marriage; Amending Article 46, Chapter 3 of Executive Order No. 209, Series of 1987, Otherwise Known as the Family Code of the Philippines

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The bill seeks to add a new ground for annulment that treats a husband who concealed that he impregnated another person at the time of marriage the same as a wife who concealed a pregnancy by another man.

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JC Abalos
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