Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals (CA) has stood pat on its Dec. 14, 2021 decision that upheld the Manila regional trial court’s (RTC) ruling which convicted of homicide eight personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for the death of a Taiwanese fisherman whose fishing vessel was at t
Maria A. Ressa
The Court of Appeals (CA) on Friday, Dec. 3, allowed Rappler Chief Executive Officer Maria A. Ressa to travel to Oslo, Norway from Dec. 8 to 13 to personally receive her Nobel Peace Prize for 2021.
It denied the opposition of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) which c
Court of Appeals The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered several government agencies to delete the name of Leyte 3rd District Rep. Vicente S. E. Veloso from the list of politicians reportedly involved in illegal drugs trade in the country. The list of persons contained in the “narco list” w
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This was stressed by the Court of Appeals (CA) in its decision which pointed out a Supreme Court (SC) ruling that Article 36 of the Family Code on nullity of marriage due to psychological incapacity “is not to be confused with a divorce law that cuts the marital bond at the time the causes therefor manifest themselves.”
As emphasized by the SC, the CA said: “It (psychological incapacity) refers to a serious psychological illness afflicting a party even before the celebration of the marriage. It is a malady so grave and so permanent as to deprive one of awareness of the duties and responsibilities of the matrimonial bond one is about to assume.”