State Policy on Marriage

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1. How does Article XV section 2 of the Constitution characterize marriage?
2. Under Family Code Article 1, what principally governs marriage’s nature, consequences and incidents?
3. What constitutional family principle appears in Article II section 12?
4. Two adults agree that their marriage will automatically expire after five years merely because that is their preference…
5. Before marriage, a couple executes a valid marriage settlement fixing their property relations within the Family Code’s…
6. Spouses jointly petition to declare their marriage void solely because both now prefer to be single. They invoke freedo…
7. A marriage is challenged for a proved absence of a legally indispensable requisite, with no applicable exception. One s…
8. Explain why marriage is a special contract whose incidents are not wholly subject to private stipulation.
9. Distinguish a lawful agreement fixing marital property relations from an agreement that the marriage itself ends whenev…
10. Explain why State protection of marriage neither compels nullity merely because both spouses request it nor compels val…
11. Why does Article 48 require the prosecuting attorney to participate in nullity and annulment cases?
12. May a judgment of nullity under Article 48 rest simply on the spouses’ confession of judgment?