Finance & Legal Best Posts in Thread: Abandoned wife.

I agree only the offended spouse can file the criminal complaint (i.e., initiate the charge of adultery (or concubinage)), but the rest of your post is unclear to me so I would like to dialogue with you for clarification.

As I understand the law, if the offended spouse files a complaint, the offended spouse must file a complaint against both their spouse and the person with whom the spouse cheated. Below, I attached a screen shot from the Mabuhay Law web site.

So, if a Filipino tries to threaten the foreigner with prison for fornicating with his wife, to be a credible threat the Filipino must also be willing to send his wife to prison for the same offense.

ChMacQueen, is this also the way you understand the law? Thanks.

 

The way it worked for me to get married in the Philippines was as follows. Once we went through the tedious and arduous preliminary requirements to get married, the Dumaguete mayor married us in a ceremony in his office. We then had to take the contract we and he signed to the Civil Registry Office at the City Hall and get the marriage registration done. Once that paperwork was done, we had to take the paperwork to the Dumaguete NSO for national registration and marriage license request. About a month after we were married we finally were able to pick up the official marriage license at the NSO. That process seemed easy compared to the preliminary paperwork and approvals. Takes a lot of patience for a foreigner.

 

I didn't need to have the Noreco Seminar i was told foreigners did not need to take it. some type of dignitary waiver i think they called it.

 

Many thanks for the info - and to everyone else who replied. She's obviously wasting her time trying to pursue him. Looks like she will just go for a 'legal separation' - which I understand is much faster and cheaper to obtain.

 

Confusion could be because Females commit Adultery and Men commit Concubinage.
Oddly the penalties are more severe for the female because she could become pregnant.
Go figure.

 

I would Agree but seems a Poster recently sees or heard it another way but that's life here very Confusing somedays

 

I concur I basically did the same thing and the registrar here at NSO accepted the Divorce decree from USA with Philippine Consul Generals Letter stating the Divorce decree was legitimate. Yes we can both legally remarry.
P.S. - I was living in the PI at the time of the Divorce also! So don't believe people who tell you it can't be done! I did it!

 

Actually

Actually, the last statement is not correct. I was married to a Filipina in the Philippines but divorced from her overseas. The registrar in the Philippines whose jurisdiction the marriage came under said that the divorce would be registered in the Philippines and that I and my ex wife were free to remarry.