...ARCHIE NIÑAL & PEPITO NIÑAL, JR., petitioners, vs. NORMA BAYADOG, respondent. YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.: May the heirs of a deceased person file a petition for the declaration of nullity of his marriage after his death? Pepito Niñal was married to Teodulfa Bellones on September 26, 1974. Out of their marriage were born herein petitioners. Teodulfa was shot by Pepito resulting in her death on April 24, 1985. One year and 8 months thereafter or on December 11, 1986, Pepito and respondent Norma Badayog got married without any marriage license. In lieu thereof, Pepito and Norma executed an affidavit dated December 11, 1986 stating that they had lived together as husband and wife for at least five years and were thus exempt from securing a marriage license. On February 19, 1997, Pepito died in a car accident. After their father's death, petitioners filed a petition for declaration of nullity of the marriage of Pepito to Norma alleging that the said marriage was void for lack of a marriage license. The case was filed under the assumption that the validity or invalidity of the second marriage would affect petitioner's successional rights. Norma filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that petitioners have no cause of action since they are not among the persons who could file an action for "annulment of marriage" under Article 47 of the Family Code. Judge Ferdinand J. Marcos of the Regional Trial Court of Toledo City, Cebu, Branch 59, dismissed the petition after finding that the Family Code is...
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...Identify the social policy that this bill addresses The Missouri House Bill 1630, also known as the Marriage Age Law Act, is striving to raise the minimum age for marriage to prevent child marriages. The current law regarding the age limit for marriage in Missouri states that anyone fifteen or older is eligible to apply for a marriage license with parental consent from at least one parent. For those fifteen and under, an order must be granted by a circuit court judge. The proposed policy would change the requirements for those under the age of eighteen to attend a court hearing where evidence shall be given to substantiate the marriage. A marriage license will not be issued to any person twenty-one years of age or older if the other party...
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...legal holidays in a year, including New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Day and National Day. The table below provides a detailed list of 2014 / 2015 / 2016 public holidays. Hope it can help you make a good plan of your China tour. At the above seven festivals, Chinese people can enjoy days off. Besides, they celebrate four other festivals on which some people have a half day off - Women's Day, Youth Day, Children's Day and Army Day. According to the provisions of the current policy, laws, regulations, rules and regulations, workers leave mainly: The annual leave with pay: Regulations on paid annual leave for employees "the third stipulation: total staff has over 1 years and less than 10 years, annual leave 5 days; already full 10 year and less than 20 years, annual leave 10 days; already full 20 years, 15 days of annual leave. Sick leave: According to the "enterprise workers due to illness or non work related injury medical treatment period" (labor department regulations No. [1994]479) and other relevant provisions, ill or injured workers on sick leave holiday according to the actual work experience and in the units of work experience, given three months to twenty-four months period of medical treatment: 1) The actual working age below ten years, worked with the employer at the age of five years for the following three months; five years for six months. 2) The actual working for ten years, worked with the...
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...What is Your Love Attitudes towards Romantic Relationship? Social relationship especially love relationships are core of human life. Universally, love is reflected as one of the most important feelings that are experienced by most people and being in love leaves memorable social and psychological mark. Love can be defined in numerous ways, however according to Berscheid and Walster (1974) love is ‘an emotional and passionate experience between two individual’. Although conceptions of love vary widely, the most prominent and influential approach to psychology is Lee’s (1973) love styles and Lee (1988) quoted ‘it is the relationship that is styled, not the lover’ (p. 49). These love styles consist of Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania and Agape, divided into primary and secondary styles (Lee, 1973). According to Lee (1973), ‘Eros’ represents powerful physical and emotional attraction to the partner and is also know as ‘love at first sight’; ‘Ludus’ is a playful, distant, noncommittal style that treats love as a game; ‘Storge’ values the long-lasting friendship aspects of love. Storgic lovers were often friends initially however becomes affectionate and settle down together. The secondary styles are the compound of two of each primary styles known as ‘Pragma’ is a practical attitude towards love. This love style is not emphasized on intense physical attraction, but is a conscious search for partner that fits a set of rational criteria. Pragmatic lover is a combination of Ludus...
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...They got a number of benedictions but some people felt it was unbelievable and disgusting. Same-sex marriage has been one of the most debated and controversial arguments in these recent years. Gay marriage is meaning that two same-sex people get married instead of a man and a woman gets married. As time goes by, more and more people are open-minded and accept gay marriage. However, there are still a number of people who cannot agree with gay marriage and even hate it. In the United States, some states have already legalized gay marriage but most states haven’t yet. Gay marriage should be legalized in the United States because homosexual love is a normal phenomenon, everyone has his own right to choose his marriage partner, and gay marriage legalization is good for the United States becoming a more democratic country. Traditional people think that a man should get married with a woman but should not get married with a man. Homosexual love is different from straight love. Because homosexual is different, people consider it a mental illness. Actually, homosexual love is a normal phenomenon. It has been proved that homosexual love is not mental illness. A gay’s gene distinguishes them from normal people’s gene and homosexual love is also related to gays’ growth environment (Whitley, 2011). At least five percent of people in this world are gay. How can people define that these five percent of people are abnormal and they have mental illness? Reviewing the long history, a lot of grand...
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... _ Jubilant Yesutor Adonoo. ID No. (DCSA 2013026) Could your spouse in any way be your enemy? Find out in the stories of those who have been in it. It is said that “two cannot be together unless they agree.” Many have gone into it and found happiness, oneness and friendship but others have also gone into it only to toil and endure it. There are so many things that bring marriage to an end whether at a premature or matured stage. Some people do not have the courage to end the marriage even when there is a possibility for them to divorce. In some cases, they may not pull out only to prove themselves strong or show the great love they have for the other partner. These people end up enduring and not enjoying the marriage. In this case the purpose of which marriage is established is not fulfilled. We as people need to listen and learn for other people’s experiences in order to...
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...Jane Austen’s Point of View of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice Acknowledgements This thesis has finally come into being to meet critical eyes through two months of hard work. From the very beginning when I chose the topic till the completion of the thesis, I have benefited from many people . First of all I would like to show my sincere gratitude to my tutor, Shen Guozheng. Without his sincere and trustworthy guidance，valuable suggestions and critical comments，it would be difficult for me to accomplish this thesis．His loyalty to teaching and punctilious work style has profoundly impressed me. Moreover, I heartily thank all the teachers who have helped me in the past four years, who have provided me with incentives and direction for my study. Thanks are also due to my classmates and friends for their constant encouragement and their ways of assistance in the course of writing. Last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family members, for their selfless support，thoughtfulness and encouragement． Abstract Jane Austen was one of the distinguished realistic novelists in the nineteenth- century-English literature．Pride and Prejudice is a world wide popular novel published in 1813．Austen set the story in the first decade of the nineteenth century．At that time，marriage was the only way for women to gain social status and recognition. The author of the present thesis will analyze the five marriage patterns from the perspective of...
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...fact that she was married five times before going on this pilgrimage and she is currently looking for husband number six. She is also an amoral character since she lacks morality in the way she speaks to the others telling them her story and the way she has acted in her marriages. The Wife of Bath has been married five times, outliving all of her husbands. Since Christ only attended one wedding, at Cana, multiple marriages are frowned upon by the church since they destroy the sanctity of the sacrament of Holy Matrimony....
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...state of decline as research shows. In the year 1950, the birth rate of unmarried women was 14 .1 per thousand. This increased to 43 .8 per thousand in the year 1990. This is a three hundred and ten percent increase. In the year 1950, illegitimate babies were approximately 150, 000 while in the year 1990 they were 1, 150, 000. This was a high rise. Research in United States indicates that between the years 1950 and 1990 there was a tremendous increase in the number of unmarried teenagers aged 15-19 years. This increase was from 12 .6 percent to 42 .5 percent in the year 1990 (Biblarz, 1993 In the last decade there has been a sixty percent increase in number of births out of wedlock. Research shows that divorce rate has also increased tremendously over the last decade. This is greatly attributed to the United States marriage rate. This has steadily grown for the last twenty five years. Today the break ups in the married couples has increased and there are normally no official records to show for this even when children are involved. The divorce rate in United States accelerated during the 1960’s and peaked in the year 1981 In the year 1970, four percent of the entire adult population had gone through a divorce. In the year 1992 this rate had increased to eleven percent. This was a tremendous increase within a span of twenty two years only. This was approximately a 226 percent increase. Today approximately 50 of the marriages in United States end up in divorce With this...
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...Marriage versus living together. Craig Moody ENC1101-12 Colin Lessig December 12, 2011 As a live in relationship I have done both and I know a live in relationship can retain as much or more love, permanency and stability then a lot of marriages. Really it depends on the couple in the relationship. You cannot honestly on a board bases say which is better for people that live together or married that are more committed. Some people would say that when you are not married that you have more freedom but you do not you have just as much freedom as if you were married. Others would say that there are two types of people living together; those that are engaged and living together for a brief time before marriage and those people that live together without definite plans of marriage. Some couples live together before marriage because they might have poor communication skills with each other, and do not want to spoil what they have which in turn could affect their relationship with one another. Marriage is the foundation for family in most modern societies. It is a contract arrangement that is binding two people together by law and is legally recognized would wide. Living together on the other hand, mimics the structure of marriage without the legal binding contract and also the exception of being legal. In some countries or states common law marriages are recognized, completely along with the legal ramifications in the event of dissolution or in some cases of an annulment...
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...Marriage what does marriage mean. Marriage is a human reality founded on mutual consent and reciprocal love. Marriage is a bond between two people of the opposite sex that went in front of a minister and exchanged vows. I feel the most important qualities of marriage are love, trust and for a wife to be able to submit to her husband. Submitting I feel is the most difficult part of the marriage, I feel this way because it feel’s as if I don’t have that same control over my life as I did before I was married. I have made a few mistakes in the years I’ve been married. I always look at it like this thank God for forgiveness. In the Old Testament marriage was part of God’s purpose in creating people and the world. It was seen as life giving to children and to love and care for a family. Some of us now know that in the New Testament high standards were set for marriage. Jesus gave forgiveness for those who failed marriage. Jesus did not believe in divorce. Jesus said anyone who divorced ad those then remarried was committing adultery. The purpose for marriage is to commit yourself to the person you love for a lifetime, as well as to bring up your children in a secure and loving home. The purpose of marriage has so many; here are a few sexual relationships with one person, to have a friendship and companionship through life. Marriage is about sharing your life completely with that one partner. It’s about having and caring for children. Christian marriage is very...
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...Stronger than ever In Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred Dana and Kevin have an interracial marriage. Throughout the novel they have their ups and downs. It was not easy form them to be together because they were looked down upon for being in an interracial marriage. In the midst of opposing relationships such as, slave and master, black and white, there is a merge, a union known as Dana and Kevin’s marriage. Dana and Kevin meet at the temp agency where she and he worked at As Kevin and Dana grow closer and spend more time together in the twentieth century. Butler’s creative approach of concealing the couple’s individual racial identities in the beginning of the navel allowed us to truly understand the authentic nature of their marriage and emphasized the humanity in Dana and Kevin’s relationship while constructing the groundwork that would eventually be tested in the twentieth century as well as the seventeenth century. Dana and Kevin had to face a lot of opposition form their family and society it was not easy for them but they managed to stick by each other. Dana and Kevin have had to face many obstacles that where put in their way. Some of the obstacles that are in their way are family, time travel, and Rufus. Dana and Kevin had a lot of obstacles that many would say would harm a marriage. One of the many obstacles that they had was their family disapproval of their marriage. Dana and Kevin where so happy that they where going to get married even though Dana was scared...
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...dealing with the results of its disappearance. By Madeleine Bunting Saturday 25 September 2004 * * The past 30 years has been a generation of dramatic change in the shape of family life. That pace will not be continued in the next 20. The next two decades will be a period in which already well-established trends are consolidated. That is the consensus among researchers. And all are agreed that by 2020 it will be very hard to talk of a "typical family", such will be the variety of shapes and types of families. The most marked characteristic of families since the 1960s has been that the traditional conception of the British family has disintegrated. The married couple with 2.4 children is disappearing. The sequence of life events - marriage, sex and children - has been radically reordered. Marriage rarely comes first and increasingly does not happen at all. Over the past 30 years, levels of cohabitation have trebled, the number of babies born outside marriage has quintupled, and the number of single-parent families has trebled. The most dramatic change, however, has been to the "happy ever after" bit in the picture of family life. In the past 30 years, the rate of divorce has doubled; and half of all children now experience their parents' divorce before they are 16. All four trends - cohabitation, divorce, births outside marriage and single parents - are likely to be even more pronounced by 2020. There is no evidence that any of them are easing. Much has been...
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...Gay Marriages Kimberly Sousa BUSCOM/275 Version 2 May 9, 2013 Kevin McCoyd Article Rebuttal The paper will have the contents of an article I decided to do for reasons that will be revealed in the conclusion. The topic is from the New York Daily News Gay Marriage the title is “Five arguments against gay marriage: Society must brace for corrosive change.” The author talks about many areas of concerns throughout the article. One is religious freedom “A recent Newsday editorial said opponents “will be seen by future generations in much the same light as those who opposed school desegregation. Devout Catholics, Orthodox Jews and, ironically, the 70% of African-Americans who oppose gay marriage will become the new Ku Klux Klan?” I do not agree with this, I have not seen a traditional marriage yet or and I do not believe one exist either. Families today have an enormous amount of pain involved with their marriages like seeking other sexual services for one, amongst many other violation of the marriage law and some of them are considered “unnatural”. The second argument is the Rights of Children. In the article the author says “More children living in gay homes means more children living lives absent a relationship with at least one biological parent. This will result in some emotional pain and confusion”. A study published in Pediatrics on June 7, 2010 found that children of lesbian mothers were rated higher than children of heterosexual parents in social and academic...
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...of divorce. A divorce is a legal action between married people to terminate their marriage relationship. It can be referred to as dissolution of marriage and is basically, the legal action that ends the marriage before the death of either spouse (Meyer, nd). One might say, what causes couples to decide to get a divorce? There are many reasons for divorce. I believe that most marriages end when a man and a woman decide to get married they do not realize all the stresses of life that come with being married. They get married thinking all will be great when in reality there is always something that could go wrong. Couples argue about things like money, bills, work, and children. Sometimes there may be more severe cases such as one or the other spouse finds someone else and that can lead to adultery. Adultery is one of the many causes of divorce, but despite what people may say very few marriages end because of infidelity. Most divorces occur in the first two to five years of marriage, and are mostly asked for by the women. In some cases it can be a mutual decision to get a divorce. The wife may retain the husband's name, although in most cases she may choose to go back to her maiden name. No one likes the idea of divorce, but it seems to be a more common issue among many couples in today’s society. Divorce is quite costly and can be a very difficult process. When children are involved in a marriage it is usually harder than if there were no children involved at all. Children grieve...
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