PHL Embassy in Manama Conducts Symposium on Philippine Laws on Marriage, Annulment, and Inheritance

Philippine Ambassador to Bahrain Alfonso A. Ver addresses the participants of the symposium.

06 April 2018 MANAMA — The Philippine Embassy in the Kingdom of Bahrain conducted a symposium entitled “Til Death (and Annulment) Do Us Part: An Overview of Philippine Laws on Marriage, Annulment and Inheritance, at the Embassy Lobby on March 28. First Secretary and Consul Maria Paz G. Cortes, a lawyer by profession, was the Resource Speaker of the said symposium. The symposium was part of Post’s celebration of Women’s Month. A total of 98 Filipino community members, MWOFRC wards and Embassy personnel participated in the symposium. END

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Top left photo: Vice Consul Joaquin Ricardo R. Aragon introduces the Resource Speaker. Top right: Consul Maria Paz G. Cortes discusses the ways of terminating marital relations under the Philippine Family Code, and their respective grounds. Bottom left: Labor Attaché Vicente M. Cabe, addressing a question on the effects of forum-shopping in a Petition for Annulment. Bottom right: Participants in a photo opportunity with Ambassador Alfonso A. Ver (second row, fourth from left).

Left photo: Ms. Rosalie Nochefranca of PINAY Ikaw Na! Filcom organization, giving her expectations on the symposium. Right photo: Mr. Roger Reyes of AMA International University raising a question on the legitimacy of the children born to spouses whose marriage was later on declared null and void.