Lawmaker files for legalizing divorce in Catholic Philippines
A Philippine lawmaker is taking a second shot at legalizing divorce in Asia's only Catholic-majority country.
The Philippines is the only country, aside from the Vatican, to outlaw absolute divorce even though the Catholic hierarchy grants canonical dissolution of marriage.
The country allows declaration of nullity based on psychological incapacity, a long and expensive legal process that only the court could decide, not the couple themselves.
Lawmakers pushing for absolute divorce say it is time for the Philippines to pass a law because defective marriages were leading to increased women and child abuse in the country.
https://www.ucanews.com/news/lawmaker-fi...ines/97895
A Philippine lawmaker is taking a second shot at legalizing divorce in Asia's only Catholic-majority country.
The Philippines is the only country, aside from the Vatican, to outlaw absolute divorce even though the Catholic hierarchy grants canonical dissolution of marriage.
The country allows declaration of nullity based on psychological incapacity, a long and expensive legal process that only the court could decide, not the couple themselves.
Lawmakers pushing for absolute divorce say it is time for the Philippines to pass a law because defective marriages were leading to increased women and child abuse in the country.
https://www.ucanews.com/news/lawmaker-fi...ines/97895
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