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Practice question: Rights and Obligations Between Husband and Wife

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

Spouses privately resolve a dispute about one spouse’s profession and claim their arrangement necessarily extinguishes a good-faith creditor’s existing rights under Article 73. What qualification matters?
  1. Article 73 expressly preserves the rights of creditors who acted in good faith
  2. Every private marital agreement defeats every creditor
  3. Only the professional spouse may define good faith
  4. Creditors have no rights under the article
  5. The court cannot examine creditor rights

Legal references

  • Family Code, EO209, relevant Articles 4, 6, 20, 26, 37, 38, 48 and 68-73, as amended: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_209_1987.html

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