DanielleNguyen wrote:Really? Hmmm. Did not know that. My husband's culture Is like that . Well if that's the case, leave the business to the heir. I'd want it that way.
There is no divorce, unless you married a Muslim man under Sharia Law, but there is legal separation. Upon separation the clock stops on their version of community property rights which counts everything owned while living together, even if not legally married as joint. Petition for Legal Separation of may be filed on any of the following grounds:
Repeated physical violence or grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner;
Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the petitioner to change religious or political affiliation;
Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such corruption or inducement;
Final judgment sentencing the respondent to imprisonment of more than 6 years, even if pardoned;
Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the respondent;
Lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent;
Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines or abroad;
Sexual infidelity or perversion;
Attempt by the respondent against the life of the petitioner;
Abandonment of petitioner by respondent without justifiable cause for more than 1 year (Article 55 of the Family Code of the Philippines).
Most annulments, if not a slam dunk case like a positive proof that a fixer forged the marriage license or an under 21 year old married without parental consent, are done by proving a case for legal separation and hiring a psychologist to lie that the cause for separation was because of a preexisting condition before the actual marriage ceremony. The entire community lie with the courts pretending not to see the lie is normally only done when celebrity VIPs are involved or a foreigner is trying to petition a spouse to enter his home nation. Everybody else just separates and go on to live in adulterous relationships which are also illegal and ignored by the police unless the victim is a VIP. In any case if there was a legal separation there will probably be no prosecution for adultery or concubinage.
