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Practice question: Antenuptial Agreements or Marriage Settlements

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A contract is entered into in the Philippines affecting foreign property, whose law requires different formalities for extrinsic validity. Those facts and foreign requirements are properly established. Which statutory qualification matters?
  1. Only the witness's favorite currency.
  2. Article 80(3)'s specific extrinsic-validity exception.
  3. An automatic rule that every foreign asset becomes Philippine public property.
  4. A rule allowing the spouses to ignore every formality.
  5. A rule that all settlement clauses become oral.

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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