Practice question
A judge’s spouse is a creditor whose financial interest in the subject matter will be affected by the case. The spouse is not counsel. Which is correct?
- Only kinship to counsel can ever require inhibition.
- A spouse’s creditor interest is expressly excluded.
- Creditors are never financially interested.
- The financial-interest ground must be applied; absence of counsel status does not remove it.
- The judge may ignore every family financial interest.
Legal references
- 2025 CJCA, AM 25-04-04-SC, November 11, 2025, specific Canon and section identified: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/100836
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