Practice question
A person admits entering a marriage but asks the registrar simply to change married to single because the spouses no longer get along. No proper status judgment or other legal basis exists. Is this a permissible shortcut under the cited cases?
- Yes; disagreement automatically dissolves every marriage.
- Yes; a correction request is always a divorce.
- Yes; the requested word alone proves a clerical error.
- No. A registry change cannot substitute for the legally required status remedy.
- No, because no civil-register entry may ever be corrected.
Legal references
- Braza v. City Civil Registrar of Himamaylan City, G.R.181174, December4 2009, main decision; https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2009/dec2009/gr_181174_2009.html
- Republic v. Olaybar, G.R.189538, February10 2014, main decision; https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/feb2014/gr_189538_2014.html
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