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Practice question: Retroactivity of Laws

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Practice question

Article256 gives the Family Code retroactive effect subject to what express limit?
  1. No prejudice or impairment of vested or acquired rights under the Civil Code or other laws
  2. Automatic destruction of every existing property right
  3. Only private agreement of the spouses
  4. Only the date of the lawyer’s opinion
  5. No limit of any kind

Legal references

  • Civil Code RA386: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Articles2252–2254, Civil Code transition.
  • Family Code EO209: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_209_1987.html Article256, Family Code retroactivity.

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