Title IV — Property Relations Between Husband and Wife

Article 140

EO 209 · Family Code of the Philippines

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A court may order judicial separation of property (splitting the property while the marriage continues) if a spouse is declared an absentee, declared insolvent, sentenced to a penalty that carries civil interdiction, abandons the other without just cause, or squanders conjugal/community property.

Official text — EO 209

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