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In a Social Weather Station survey published in 2018, for example, roughly 53 percent of Filipinos agree to legalize divorce. This tells us that more Filipinos have warmed up to the idea. We first started polling for the legalization of divorce back in 2005, which was when its support was at its weakest.
The Philippines remains the only country in the world, aside from the Vatican, where divorce does not legally exist. However, that might soon come to an end as the House Bill (HB) 9349, or the proposed Absolute Divorce Act has been approved and is now advancing to its final reading.
The Philippine House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill that legalizes divorce in a limited range of circumstances, six years after a similar law stalled in the Senate.
If you as a couple do not want to consider divorce in your marriage, you don’t have to. Legalizing divorce does not threaten harmonious families. People who are happy and content within their marriages will not suddenly rush to get one just because it is available.
Published May 31, 2024 12:14pm. The House of Representatives approved House Bill 9349, or the Absolute Divorce Bill, on third and final reading on May 22, sparking debates on whether the Philippines should remain as one of only two countries in the world without a divorce law. The current Family Code in the Philippines only provides that ...
On August 17, 2021, the Philippine government announced that a bill proposing the legalization of divorce in the Philippines had been approved by the Committee on Population and Family Relations of the House of Representatives.
Nov 4, 2023 · Thousands of people like Ms. Nepomuceno are trapped in long-dead marriages in the Philippines, the only country in the world, other than the Vatican, where divorce remains illegal.
