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Title XI — Summary Judicial Proceedings in the Family Law

Article 245

EO 209 · Family Code of the Philippines

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Once the petition is granted and the absent spouse is declared presumptively dead, the judgment is recorded in the civil registry. The present spouse may then remarry.

Official text — EO 209

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