Practice question
An otherwise eligible child’s parents were both below eighteen at conception, with no other impediment, and later validly married. A challenger relies solely on that earlier age impediment to deny legitimation. What does RA 9858 provide?
- Any age impediment necessarily defeats legitimation
- Every child must instead be adopted
- A later marriage cures every impediment of every kind
- The registrar may choose the law
- The age-only category is expressly eligible, so that fact alone is not a valid disqualification
Legal references
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/5/95173 — Family Code, Articles 174 and 178–182
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2009/ra_9858_2009.html — RA 9858, amended Articles 177–178
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/feb2023/gr_250199_2023.html — Republic v. Boquiren, G.R. No. 250199, February 13, 2023
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