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Title V — The Family

Article 162

EO 209 · Family Code of the Philippines

ELI5— what this means for you

The provisions on the family home in this Title apply to family homes already existing at the time the Family Code took effect (August 3, 1988). Those family homes constituted under the old Civil Code rules are now automatically governed by the Family Code rules.

Official text — EO 209

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