Practice question
Under Family Code Article 1, what principally governs marriage’s nature, consequences and incidents?
- Only a wedding planner’s contract
- Only the parties’ changing wishes
- Law, subject to the permitted property-settlement exception
- Only a witness’s preferences
- Only the ceremony’s cost
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html — Constitution, Article II section 12 and Article XV sections 1–3
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/5/95173 — Family Code, Articles 1 and 48
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/apr2025/gr_267998_2025.html — Maliwat-Melad v. Melad, G.R. No. 267998, April 23, 2025, main opinion
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