But change could be on the horizon. In 2024, the Philippines’ House of Representatives—the lower chamber of the legislature—passed a bill that aimed to institutionalize absolute divorce, which ...
The Philippines' Lower House of Congress is fast-tracking a bill that seeks the civil recognition of church-decreed annulment of marriage to allow Filipino couples a cheaper way of dissolving their ...
UnMarry is pretty breezy for a film that is so much about the end of things: about all the hurt that people can cause each ...
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What this movie on annulment misses

Annulment remains one of the most opaque and punishing legal processes in the Philippines. It is expensive, invasive, ...
The Philippines bears the dubious distinction of being the last country in the world outlawing divorce to the majority of its citizens. Unhappy married Catholic couples wishing to live apart from each ...
The bill would make violence, infidelity and abandonment all grounds for annulment. The Philippines is one of the few places in the world - alongside the Vatican and Malta - where divorce is still ...
MANILA, Philippines – The volume of bogus court decisions spilling into civil registry offices triggered the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA, formerly known as the National Statistics Office) to ...