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Title IV — Property Relations Between Husband and Wife

Article 122

EO 209 · Family Code of the Philippines

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Personal and exclusive debts of each spouse (debts incurred for their own benefit alone, not the family's) are charged against that spouse's exclusive property first. Only if the exclusive property is not enough does the conjugal partnership become subsidiarily liable.

Official text — EO 209

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