Category: Legal Matters

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. 

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

There are two ways of raising the status of a child from illegitimate to legitimate. This article will discuss each process one by one.

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.

Atty. Kareen Lucero offers a bare-bones guide to separating from your spouse through either a Declaration of Nullity or Annulment of Marriage.