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Annulment

Discussion in 'General Chit Chat' started by David jordan, Mar 22, 2018.

  1. David jordan
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    Hi peeps, could someone recommend a good solicitor in Manila as my girlfriend has to get an annulment this year.
    Also at what stage can she work in the UK when we eventually gets a fiancee visa and she is over full time ?.

    Thanks
    Dave.
  2. Brom27
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    She still can't work on fiance visa. She can only work when you apply for extension after you get married on fiance visa.
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  3. graham59
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    Marry her in PI and bring her over on a Spouse/Married visa if you want her to be able to work more or less straight from the off. It will also probably save you a lot of money.
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  4. bigmac
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    as regards getting an annulment this year--thats optimistic. hope youve got deep pockets--quick annulments dont come cheap.
  5. menchu_edge
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    I think annulment will cost you more. You can wait for the Divorce Bill. It's already approved by the HoR. Just wait a lil bit more for the Senate to approve it.
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  6. graham59
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    Imagine how long the 'divorce queue' will be though. They won't make it easy. :( Lots of happy lawyers again. :greedy:
  7. Stellar
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    you make it sound as if the Senate is only going to rubber-stamp it, when the Senate and its leaders are a much more conservative body than the HoR. Even if it does eventually fluke through the law will it be nothing like divorces in the UK are in any case. What may well happen when it's all done and dusted is that divorce will not be legalised at all. Divorce, which don't forget is still a massive red light and a bogey word, for a lot of people in the Philippines, will still be illegal, but annulments will become easier and possibly given a new name, like a marriage 'dissolution'. Whatever happens, it is still going to a right nuisance, and an expensive one at that, for somebody to get de-married, in the Philippines.
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  8. bigmac
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    and who's to say if a philippines divorce will cost less than an annulment ? too many pigs in the trough. even in the UK a divorce costs more than a marriage.
  9. Stellar
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    it's doubtful that it will even happen. Duterte has now come out against the bill now that the House has got it through and he's even said that he's against the idea of not just divorce, but the 'dissolution' of marriage too, which is the wording that the also-against-divorce Senate majority leader suggested. They're also using wording that one of the partners has to be the 'injured' spouse, so no way is it going to be anything like fault-free divorce as it is known in the UK. People will still have to prove, or show, that one of the parties to the marriage has done something wrong, so they'll have to be all that stuff like busting into people's bedrooms to take photos and prove infidelity which used to happen in the west in bygone days. Even if the law changes, it will still be a right mess basically. Even if there ends up being some new way to end a marriage, it will still only be like what it was in the UK about 80 years ago. Not easy. Complicated and expensive. Beyond the reach of most people.

    the Philippines Senate, although its the more powerful of the two houses, is like a little club. It's not like a proper assembly like the US Senate is. It's more like the US Supreme Court - there's only 24 people (with 5 women) in it and the majority of them are social conservatives opposed to divorce.
  10. PorkAdobo
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    As a self confessed womaniser who still pops Viagra and has already been on the receiving of a marriage dissolution, perhaps Rody has a personal interest in keeping things as difficult as possible.
  11. menchu_edge
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    The President is against the bill but if it is approved by the Congress, even if he doesn't sign it, it will still become a law.

    This video is from the Speaker of HoR.

  12. graham59
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    Sorry, but when a country has been run by a bunch of crooks and child abuser/priests, lording it over the other 95% of the poverty-stricken population for the past how many years ?

    I think one can be forgiven for being CYNICAL. :erm:
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  13. Stellar
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    big if.

    https://www.ucanews.com/news/philippine-senators-vow-to-kill-divorce-bill/81852

    it's a polarising issue. Although a lot do want the law to be changed, a lot don't want it changed at all and even many of those those that do want the law to be changed they don't want it to be like it is in the west. It seems to many Filipinos that in the west, people can get a divorce as easily they can pick up a sachet of Magic Sarap from a convenience store shelf - and they don't like that at all. Many foreigners seem to have trouble realising this.

    and of the many Filipinos that definitely do not want to see divorce legalised, many of them tend to be in socially more prominent positions than those that do. They just have more clout, in the society. I definitely wouldn't hold your breath for divorce to become legal in the Philippines any time soon if I were you.
  14. David jordan
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    I know it will be expensive and won't be completed any time soon but just wanted the name of a lawyer in Manila.Someone who could be recommended .
  15. bigmac
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    its been mentioned on here before--a lot of lawyers are now wary of annulments--and some have even denied ever done that type of work. so you will just have to get your ear to the ground and try to find one. remember--its all manana land.
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  16. menchu_edge
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    Let's see ;)

    Sorry but I don't use Magic Sarap or MSG when cooking..
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  17. menchu_edge
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    Lemme check my former colleague. I think his annulment is done.
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  18. Stellar
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    and so, doubtless was he.

    of course it wasn't 'his' annulment at all. It was hers. He was just the one that paid for it.
  19. Pedro
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    Hi Dave
    Did you start your annulment? Do you find a lawyer you could recommend? We need to start the process asap and I've been looking around too.
  20. David jordan
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    Hi pedro,yes started it but going very slowly,this virus will slow it down even more.

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