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You may have noticed that a Forum user must now be registered and logged in to comment. We’re constrained to do this because of the barrage of spam coming in lately (yes, there are spam comments, not only spam emails). You may have also noticed that all registered users have been “promoted” or upgraded from “subscriber” to “contributor”, which means that anyone can now write and submit an article for posting in this site. Here’s the deal:
A contributor may write and submit articles, but the moderators must still review the article for posting. A contributor cannot directly publish a post. The moderators have absolute discretion to approve, edit, revise, reject or publish an article. Please don’t take this personally; this is meant to retain the integrity of The Forum.
We don’t have a set of specific guidelines, and, hopefully, we won’t need one. Still, there are rules to live by, foremost of which is this – no legal advice is and must be given. Articles and comments must be limited to legal information.
After a few submissions, a contributor status may be upgraded to “author”, the latter having the prerogative to publish articles without moderator approval. There will be some exceptions, of course.
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Added: The immediate influx of user registration is heartwarming. May I request for a backgrounder on each user through the “About the User” portion of your profile. You can also add this information at the bottom of the submitted post. The information will appear here. Again, thank you.
Cynthia, yes. Please go here. Thanks.
Atty. Fred,
I would like to know if you are hadling annulment cases, if so, may i know all the details (price package, time frame and requirements)
Thanks in advance,
Dear Atty Fred,
I have a problem with my existing loan at AUB. When I loan 80k since April 2005 i gave half of it to my co-maker. I have her sign an agreement that she owned me 30k which is payable for 3 years. Since May 2005 , I was the one shouldering the monthly amortization thru salary deduction. When I got lay-off from the company last sept 2006. I was not able to pay AUB. I ask help from my co maker because she did not pay me her monthly dues for 11 months after i lend her the money. Thats the time, different law firms and colletion agents called me,telling me that if Im not going to settle they will find a case agaisnt me. Then yesterday I receive a sub-poena from pasay city trial court .. case : sum of money .. what should i do ? thanks ..
Marie, I guess it’s called “summons” because if its simply for a sum of money, you’re a defendant in a civil case. As to the merits of your case, I can’t second-guess your lawyer (if none yet, I suggest you get one). Nevertheless, in general, a co-maker is bound in a solidary capacity, which means that the creditor could go against all or any one of the debtors. Don’t take this as applicable to your case because as mentioned above, I can’t discuss the merits of your case. Please discuss this with your lawyer. Good luck.
i met my husband 8 years ago he had a first marriage, he and their daughter was abondoned by his first wife, the girl leaved their house and get another man..she use to visit their daughter for the first year of their separation, then she never showed up until they heard she was pregnant with her boyfriend, then my husband started to look for somebody as his first marriage wont be the same again..it was in the first year of their separation when we started our relationship we lasted up to 5 years then i decided to go abroad..we continued our relationship and i discover that i was pregnant, i had my baby in the country iam living at now, my son had his fathers surname, when i got back home we consulted a pastor whom he told us that we can get married as long no one will complain to the court, since we want to start our family and my husband doesnt know hsi first wife whereabout and no contact to the girl for 5years we decided to push the civil wedding..they provided us marriage contract so i got the chance to change my status and my name..by that time my husband annulment is still on the process, so we know that our marriage had a chance to be nulled and void, after 2 years his annulment was released, and is nullify..then after 4months we decided to get married in our church but we used the same registry number from our civil marriage, no one can tell us now where we can request a notation that we get married again this 2007.. is our church wedding may also be affected and have a chance to be null and void just because we used the same registry number? iam really confused now because iam planning to petition my husband what will be better to petition him as spouse or partner? but my surname is his surname now..we got one son with his name..god help me iam really worried that the embassy of the country that iam living now may refused his application as dependant..if both of our marriage will not be recognise..thanks
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Dexter,
Thank you very much for the submission…I believe it’s already posted. Kindly include a statement in your second post that it’s the product of your own research, so that it could properly be attributed to you. One more thing, maybe you would want to add something to the write-up at the contributors’ page. More power!
Atty. Fred,
I’m Dexter Pante, currently 2nd year law student at San Beda College.
May I know how to upload the bar questions and their answers which I personally researched?
When I saved it, I did not see it published. It was still in draft mode. May I know it the said article still needs the moderator/administrators approval and review?
Thanks and more power.
Dexter Pante
Dear Atty. Fred,
Thanks for the information. I already did as suggested. BTW, you forgot to answer whether contributions need approval from moderator/administrator. I assume that it does so as to maintain and uphold the correctness, integrity and validity of legal information published here.
Dexter
Dex, we presume that when an author submits an article, he/she already verified its correctness. I, for one, would not want my articles to be riddled with errors.
We also presume that readers, many of whom are well-informed about the law, would point out any errors. We also expect the author to defend his/her position or admit the mistake, as the case may be. We must point out that admitting the mistake is not at all bad, as this Forum welcomes free (and respectful) debate and positive criticism.
Good day. I would like to share something which concern me a lot although there is no problem encountered yet as of now. I have a half brother. He was adopted when he was adopted by a childless couple who were now both dead. There was no formal adoption paper which was executed. He was now using the name given by his supposed adopting parents. However, previously he was registered with another name by his biological mother before he was adopted. The couple who adopted him also had him registered using the family name of the couple in another place. In my opinion, the name that should be used by him is the name registered by his biological mother. What would be the effect of this double registration on his legal transactions? What would be the remedy to cure this defect?
Another concern is with respect to the properties of the adopting parents. My half brother had executed an affidavit claiming that he is the child of the deceased couple and that there is no other heir. With that, he had already sold the properties of the couple. Now, the siblings of the couple claim that they have the right to the properties, but there is still no litigation. What would be the possible implication if the case of the siblings of the couple would push through? Thank you..
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