The Supreme Court of the Philippines has ruled that a spouse who knowingly enters into a bigamous marriage cannot seek to have it nullified. The court emphasized that only the aggrieved or injured innocent spouse of either marriage has the right to file a petition for the declaration of nullity. This decision stems from a case involving a Filipina who entered a second marriage while her first marriage was still legally valid.
The Supreme Court has ruled that a spouse who knowingly entered a bigamous marriage cannot seek to nullify it.In a 14-page decision, the SC En Banc denied a Filipina’s petition to declare her second marriage void for being bigamous.“It must be recapitulated that based on the rules and jurisprudence, the aggrieved or injured innocent spouse of either marriage has the sole right to file the petition for the declaration of nullity of the bigamous marriage,” the SC said.
For its part, the SC said that only the aggrieved spouse from either marriage has the right to petition for the annulment of a second marriage.The SC said that the purpose for nullifying a bigamous marriage is to preserve a marriage, and “not to provide the guilty spouses in the bigamous marriage a convenient means to dissolve their illegitimate union.
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