Category: Family and Relationship

Learn the laws, rules, and regulations governing the use of the surname of a married woman in the Philippines.

Learn everything you need to know about registering an illegitimate child's birth as well as determining whose parent's surname the child will take. 

Learn the process of filing a petition for a legal separation in the Philippines, the grounds for filing such a petition, and what happens next once it's approved.

Atty. Kareen Lucero answers the most common legal questions concerning illegitimate children (and their families) in the Philippines.

Are you the father of an illegitimate child? Here's how you can acknowledge your child so he/she can use your surname in the birth certificate.