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  1. okiebound

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    Even though our house and land officially had me listed as a "Filipina" (LOL) and I was legally on the deeds, etc...I would have inherited it after the death of my husband in 2014. I was able to sell the house and land without any difficulties after I returned to the U.S. I had given power of attorney authority to a Filipina friend there in Dumaguete and used attorney, Michael Miguel, to make sure everything went well. You can contact him if you find yourself needing a real estate attorney.
     
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    okiebound, Apr 16, 2019
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    The two cases below were the basis of an appeal which we won in 2018.
    Not quoted here because the parties are still living in the area
     

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    Perhaps, but I have discussed the exceptions to the law ad nauseam on this forum. I am well aware them. Someone acquiring land prior to 1935 is almost completely irrelevant to anyone alive today. It does not matter or apply to 99.9999% of foreigners in the Philippines and so it is not worth being discussed.

    Almost the same for hereditary acquisition; the chances of a foreigners wife dying before they do (especially considering the age difference in most foreigner-Filipino marriages) is small, but not zero. At least this one has some merit and is worth being discussed. Almost all other exceptions to the law are useless to a foreigner (that was not originally born a Filipino citizen or has since become a Filipino citizen). Any attempt to circumvent the law using these exceptions/loopholes to own (or acquire, semantics) land in the Philippines has been addressed by the Supreme Court. The SC has regularly held up the "spirit of the law" every time people try to use the letter of the law. So the semantics is completely irrelevant, you cannot own land since you cannot acquire land, minus the few legal exceptions written into the law, which I have thoroughly addressed in previous posts.
     
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    Rye83, Apr 15, 2019
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