{"id":4258,"date":"2020-01-13T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:00:56","slug":"essential-and-formal-requisites-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/essential-and-formal-requisites-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential and Formal Requisites of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life. It is the foundation of the family and an inviolable social institution whose nature, consequences, and incidents are governed by law and not subject to stipulation, except that marriage settlements may fix the property relations during the marriage within the limits provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/family-code-of-the-philippines-executive-order-no-209\/\">Family Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Family Code specifies the essential and formal requisites of marriage. The <strong>essential requisites<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/title-i-marriage-family-code-of-the-philippines\/\">Article 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/family-code-of-the-philippines-executive-order-no-209\/\">Family Code<\/a>) are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1. Legal capacity of the contracting parties who must be a male and a female. [See <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/same-sex-marriage-not-yet-legally-recognized-in-the-philippines\/\">Same Sex Marriage Not Yet Legally Recognized in the Philippines<\/a>]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2. Consent freely given in the presence of the solemnizing officer.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>formal requisites <\/strong>of marriage (<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/title-i-marriage-family-code-of-the-philippines\/\">Article 3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/family-code-of-the-philippines-executive-order-no-209\/\">Family Code<\/a>) are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1. Authority of the solemnizing officer; [See <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/solemnizing-officers-allowed-to-officiate-marriages-under-philippine-laws\/\">Persons Authorized to Solemnize Marriage<\/a>]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2. A valid marriage license. [See <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/marriages-exempted-from-marriage-license-requirement\/\">Marriages Exempted from License Requirement<\/a>]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>3. A marriage ceremony which takes place with the appearance of the contracting parties before the solemnizing officer and their personal declaration that they take each other as husband and wife in the presence of not less than two witnesses of legal age.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>absence<\/strong> of any of the <strong>essential<\/strong> or <strong>formal<\/strong> requisites shall render the marriage void&nbsp;<em>ab initio<\/em> [see <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/grounds-for-declaration-of-nullity-of-marriage\/\">Grounds for Declaration of Nullity of Marriage<\/a>]. A <strong>defect<\/strong> in any of the <strong>essential<\/strong> requisites shall not affect the validity of the marriage but the party or parties responsible for the irregularity shall be civilly, criminally and administratively liable. [<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/title-i-marriage-family-code-of-the-philippines\/\">Article 4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/family-code-of-the-philippines-executive-order-no-209\/\">Family Code<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life. It is the foundation of the family and an inviolable social institution whose nature, consequences, and incidents are governed by law and not subject to stipulation, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[35,124,316,261,258],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annulment-and-legal-separation","tag-annulment","tag-declaration-of-nullity","tag-family-code","tag-legal-separation","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}