3b) If you are a foreigner, are you a person (legally) in the PH?
PRSONS 2016 3c) If you are born here, are you automatically a Filipino? Do we apply jus soli?
3d) Under the Constitution, who are citizens?
ARTS 1-18, NCC 4) Are you a person? Who is a person?
1) What is law? What are the kinds of law? 4a) A fetus is born but died after an hour. Is he a
2) What if there is a law which provides that it shall take effect immediately, is it valid? person? 4b) Upon conception, are you already a person?
3) What is a publication? Newspaper? Why? 4c) If you are a foreigner, are you a person?
3a) Is FHM/Playboy Magazine a newspaper? 4d) Do you have personality?
3b) What about newsletters? Comics?
4) You are turning 18 tomorrow. Can you get married today? ARTS 1-10, FC
4a) Basis for the age exception to the computation of period? 1) What is marriage?
5) You may avail of a tax refund within the period of 1 year from January 1. When is the last day? 1a) Explain ordinary vs. special contract.
5a) Supposing it is not a leap year? 1b) Why does the law use the term “inviolable”?
6) Today, August 2 2016, a new law was passed stating that it shall take effect January 1 2016. It 2) What are the requisites of marriage?
was published today. 2a) Supposing you are marrying a foreigner who is a minor.
7) Prospective vs. retroactive 2b) What if you are 15?
7a) If it is procedural, is its retroactivity automatic? 2c) What if you get married abroad?
7b) Can a penal law lowering the sentence but minimizing indemnity be given retroactive 3) Supposing a man and a woman went to a judge. The judge was in the toilet. The judge put himself
effect? 7c) Even if it affects the rights of the victim or his heirs? on speaker. The dog is the ringbearer. They signed the marriage certificate with the dog as
8) When you bought a Honda car, it came with an agreement that said car cannot be used as a taxi. witness. Status of marriage?
However, you needed the money so you used it. Honda sued. Can it? 3a) What if there are no other irregularities except for the dog?
9) Supposing you joined a sorority or gang and you died during the initiation. Can your family sue 3b) What if the witness was a human, of legal age?
(in relation to waiver of rights)? 3c) What if there are two witnesses, one is deaf and one is blind?
10) What is the minimum age required in the PH to buy liquor? 3d) Supposing that even if the judge is in the toilet, they can hear each other?
10a) In the US, 21 is the minimum age. Can you buy liquor there when you are only 20? 3e) Was there a ceremony in the first place?
10b) Supposing an 18-year-old American buys here. Can he? 3f) What if it was a video conference?
11) Supposing at 20, you wanted to get married in a country where 21 is the legal age to get 3g) What if in said video conference, one is in Australia, one is in Japan, and one is in the US?
married. Can you? 4) What if the solemnizing officer just said, “you may kiss the bride”
11a) A 20-year-old from the same country referred to above went to PH. Can he get married? 4a) No ceremony but the parties signed the marriage certificate
12) Supposing you have a car. You sent it to your Japanese son who is in New York. 5) What if one of the parties is from Thailand, a transgender, and the other a Filipino guy. According to
Thai laws, she is a woman.
ARTS 19-26, NCC (ABSENT) 5a) So do PH laws take precedence over Thai laws?
5b) So procreation is the main purpose of marriage?
ARTS 27-51, NCC 6) What do you mean by personal declaration?
1) Can you file a civil and criminal case simultaneously? 6a) What if it is a video conference?
1a) Discuss Arts 32, 33, 34, and 2177, NCC
1b) Why is the civil case suspended? ARTS 11-34, FC
2) What is a prejudicial question? 1) Supposing you, an orphan, decides to marry a refugee. What will you do?
2a) What are the requisites? 2) Supposing you are deaf-mute and you are marrying someone who is deaf-mute and
3) Are you a person? Why? blind? 2a) What about the capacity to act?
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3) Supposing you are to marry a 15-year-old American. What will you do? 14) Procedure for annulment and its effects.
3a) Is birth certificate sufficient for the American? Why? 15) Procedure for legal separation and its effects.
3b) What if there is no diplomatic relations between our country and the country of the person
you are marrying, i.e. there are no diplomatic or consular offices? RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS BETWEEN HUSBAND & WIFE
4) Supposing you are marrying a guy who is previously married. What will you do? 1) Supposing you're married to Kyle, who, upon knowing about the scarcity of male pornstars in
4a) What if there is a legal impediment? Japan, worked there. Can you prevent him from doing so?
4b) Will the issuance of the marriage license be stopped?
4c) What is the reason behind this? PROEPRTY RELATIONS
5) Supposing you are a member of a tribe and your girlfriend is a member of another tribe. You live 1) What is a donation propter nuptias?
in the mountains. What will you do? 1a) Is a wedding ring donation propter nuptias?
1b) Supposing you married Regina. Prior to the marriage, you received a house & lot from
VOID/VOIDABLE/LEGAL SEPARATION her parents.
1) Enumerate the void marriages. 2) Can you donate to your wife?
2) Can you marry the son of your great-great-grandfather? 2a) Regardless of what the property regime is?
2a) What if you are adopted? 3) Can a donation propter nuptias be revoked?
2b) What about the biological brother of your adopted brother? 4) What properties are community and what are exclusive?
3) Supposing you are married and your soulja boy does not salute. What is the status of your 5) Supposing you gave an engagement ring to your fiancé, then got married. Is the engagement
marriage? 3a) What if it is curable? ring community property or exclusive property?
4) What if you are married to a guy whose soulja boy does not spit baby gravy? 5a) How about the wedding ring?
5) Supposing you married a guy whose soulja boy does not salute, but you are aware of such fact 6) Supposing you joined the Olympics and won a bronze medal, is the medal exclusive property?
and still married him. 7) Supposing you were previously married, and you brought into your subsequent marriage
5a) What if you are frigid? properties w/c were exclusive in said former marriage. Will it be exclusive?
6) What if your partner has STD. Status? 8) Supposing your friend gave you a diamond-studded underwear for your birthday. Exclusive
6a) What if you knew he has STD and still married him? or community?
6b) What if you did not know about it but it is curable? 9) Charges against community property.
7) What if you married your girlfriend and found that she already has a kid? Status? 10) Supposing you had a penis enlargement, can the doctor collect from your wife?
8) Grounds for LS 11) Discuss SOP
9) Supposing you are a homosexual, and did not inform her. Then, your wife engaged had an affair 12) Is it possible to have common property if their regime is SOP?
with a woman. Is there a ground for nullity, annulment, legal separation? 13) What is Art. 147
10) Supposing your husband got fired by his employer, which led him to always go home in a 13a) What are the marriages under Art. 147?
drunken state. Is there a ground for nullity, annulment, legal separation? 13b) What if there is no marriage license.
11) Supposing you are a drug dealer, convicted but under parole. Is there a ground for 14) What is Art. 148
nullity, annulment, legal separation? 14a) Distinguish Art. 147 from Art. 148.
12) Supposing you got married to someone who did not know that you had a child prior to the
marriage. Wanting to get even, he had an affair with someone he eventually married. Prior to the THE FAMILY
subsequent marriage, he obtained a judicial declaration of presumptive death. Is there a ground for 1) Who are the members of your family?
nullity, annulment, legal separation? 2) Are in-laws part of the family?
12a) Why is just concealment of pregnancy and not concealment of a child by another man or 3) Can you sue your family?
by previous marriage? 4) Supposing you live in a dorm and your siblings are also staying there w/ you. Only the help is in
12b) Is there a ground for legal separation if you were absent, then reappeared? your house in Antipolo. Your parents went abroad. Can that home be attached if your parents have
13) Procedure for declaration of nullity and its effects. creditors?
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4a) Is it still a family home? EMANCIPATION (NONE)
4b) Supposing the house is the house of the parents. Can it be considered a family home?
5) Supposing your family home is worth 10M today. At the time of its constitution, it's worth 300K. SUMMARY JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
You have a debt worth 9M. Can the creditors go after the family home? 1) Discuss everything.
FUNERALS
1) Discuss everything
2) What if the family wants to donate the organs of the deceased?
3) What if the family wants the body of the deceased to be fed to a lion?
4) What will happen in the case of Mary Jane Veloso regarding funerals?
USE OF SURNAMES
1) What is a name? Surname? Middle name?
2) Can “Jr.” be added to the name of a girl?
3) What is the rule on use of name & surname in case of celebrities?
4) Can you name your child “#abc12deg”?
5) What if there is an identity in names & surnames?
6) What is the case of Maximo Wong?
ABSENCE (N/A)
CIVIL REGISTER
1) Discus everything.