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Why the Philippines Needs a Divorce Law
Pending Bill
A divorce bill has been pending in the House of Representatives for the last six years, sponsored by the representatives of the Gabriela Women’s Party.
The bill lists five grounds for divorce, among them: when the spouses have been separated in fact for at least five years or have been legally separated for at least two years, and their reconciliation is highly improbable; when any of the grounds recognized by law for legal separation has caused the irreparable breakdown of the marriage.
The bill has not progressed beyond the Committee level because the energies of many were focused on the reproductive health bill that was recently passed into law.
There is no more time to pass a divorce law in the current Congress since elections are scheduled in May.
But the bill will be filed again in the next Congress.
Virtus et scientia meaningCan it pass? Yes, definitely, eventually, with the support of enlightened Filipinos. The lesson we have learned fro
