{"id":156985,"date":"2018-03-16T23:26:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156985"},"modified":"2018-03-16T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T03:26:15","slug":"house-okays-bill-recognizing-foreign-divorce-decree-on-2nd-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/16\/house-okays-bill-recognizing-foreign-divorce-decree-on-2nd-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"House okays bill recognizing foreign divorce decree on 2nd reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150373\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/divorce-separation-marriage-breakup-split-39483.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150373\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/divorce-separation-marriage-breakup-split-39483.jpeg\" alt=\"(Pexels photo)\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/divorce-separation-marriage-breakup-split-39483.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/divorce-separation-marriage-breakup-split-39483-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/divorce-separation-marriage-breakup-split-39483-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bill proposes an amendment to the Family Code of the Philippines (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure recognizing a foreign divorce decree in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued Friday, the lower chamber passed via voice voting House Bill 7185, which seeks to allow Filipino spouses to remarry upon the acquisition of a foreign decree of termination of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, a foreign divorce decree must be judicially recognized in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The bill proposes an amendment to the Family Code of the Philippines, which no longer requires a Filipino spouse to seek judicial recognition or enforcement of the foreign divorce decree.<\/p>\n<p>It provides that registration of the duly-authenticated foreign decree of termination of marriage in the Philippine Civil Registry shall be sufficient proof of the capacity to remarry.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was principally authored by Deputy Speaker Pia Cayetano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure recognizing a foreign divorce decree in the Philippines. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[12331,48474,11118,5590,48475],"class_list":["post-156985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-divorce","tag-foreign-divorce-decree","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-pia-cayetano","tag-remarry","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}