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Philippines marriage law not fair?
My fiancee and I want to get married. She is a Filipino living in Mindanao and I am an American. She was married to a Filipino man and had 2 children. He decided he did not want to be married anymore and traveled to the US on a visitor's visa. He met an American woman and they got married. It's been 10 years now and my fiancee has spent $3000 with a lawyer trying to get an annulment so we can get married on a fiancee visa in the US. Her lawyer hasn't done anything yet, at least she has not seen any results. He now wants another $2000 and said the annulment will be completed by the end of this year. We will then have to wait another 6-8 mos for the fiancee visa application.
I am wondering if there are any others out there that have gone through this situation and what did you do? We are just sick to think that there is a possibility that this may never resolve and we will not be able to be together.
It seems while Philippine law is trying to protect the sanctity of marriage in their country, there are so many cases where a divorce or annulment should be granted. My fiancee would not even be able to remarry in the Philippines if she wanted to unless she was granted an annulment.
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- ElmbeardLv 78 years ago
I am a divorced Catholic from the UK. In 2007, I got my annulment from the Church by asking the priest. It cost me about £350 and took about 18 months. My annulment is recognised under Filipino law - I was questioned three years ago by my then girlfriend's auntie, who is a lawyer. The barrier to our marriage came from the UK authorities who do not recognise marriages with foreigners unless they are gay or rich,
It seems you fiancee is being conned by the lawyers in her country. She should go and visit her parish priest and discuss the best place to apply for her annulment - either the diocese where she lives, the diocese where her husband lives, or the diocese where they were married. When I applied, my priest suggested Brighton & Arundel (the place where we were married) since they were most likely to be favourable. If your fiancee's husband now lives in the States, you could yourself sniff around his Catholic diocese in case they are more relaxed about granting annulments.
The grounds they prefer best is incapacity to understand the duties and responsibiities of marriage at the time of the wedding. For this, she needs a witness to the wedding who will testify, and both she and her husband will need to be interviewed. She will also need any certificates of baptism and her divorce certificate. Without the latter, then her husband is committing bigamy and could be arrested unless he got a civil divorce sharpish.
Part of the process is a deposition from the Defender of the Bond, who will put the case for keeping her marriage intact. In my case, they ruled that the marriage could not be defended, but any future marriage I went into carried a condition that the parish priest was informed of my previous attempted marriage, and was prepared to give me instruction so that I was properly capable this time.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
I don't particularly consider it can be reasonable given that not all women in america are like that! Definite there may be quite a lot of ladies that regrettably would try this but you simply have got to to find the correct one who's now not gonna cheat on you and divorce and take 1/2 yer stuff! Folks seem to rush off and get married earlier than they even truly be aware of who they're marrying! You might have bought to pick the right one who you already know would by no means do something stupid like that! That is why you have to be in contact and virtually recognize who you're gonna marry!
- JohnLv 58 years ago
take her marriage license too the usa, and turn him in to the authority's you can't marry again when your not divorce yet let the authoritys handle it because her lawyers just milking her out of money,all he had too do was take it court and show he was marry before and didn't get a divorce.