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Practice question: Antenuptial Agreements or Marriage Settlements

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Practice question

A contract affects property outside the Philippines and is executed in the foreign country where that property lies. The dispute concerns its extrinsic validity. A party invokes 80's Philippine default while refusing to consider any exception. Which is best?
  1. Examine 80(2), which expressly excepts that stated extrinsic-validity situation.
  2. Every property-contract issue automatically ignores all 80 exceptions.
  3. Foreign situs can never matter to extrinsic validity.
  4. The contract's font necessarily fixes its governing law.
  5. Only the spouses' favorite country controls.

Legal references

  • Family Code Articles36,65-67,79-80,86 and134-138: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_209_1987.html

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