The senator says what he supports is making annulment accessible for the poor
In 2019, Villanueva said of the move to push the divorce bil in the Senate: “Over my dead body.” On Thursday, he said, “Divorce is a big NO for me!”“Bagamat hindi pa rin po nagbabago ang personal nating pananaw sa pagtutol sa panukalang ito, alam rin nating mayroong mga pagsasama, lalo na po kung nauuwi sa karahasan, ay dapat na pong wakasan,He said that this is where annulment makes the nullifying of marriage a solution for all regardless of social class.
“Mas nararapat pong padaliin natin ang prosesong kaakibat nito, at gawin itong mas accessible sa lahat, anuman ang estado sa buhay,”For the first time since the restoration of a bicameral legislature after the EDSA People Power Revolution, a Senate committee on women, children, family relation, and gender equality on Tuesday, September 19, approved a consolidated measure on absolute divorce in the country.Senate Bill No.
Under the bill, absolute divorce was defined as “the legal termination of a marriage by a court in a legal proceeding, requiring a petition or complaint for divorce by one or both party/ies, which will have the effect of returning both parties to the status of single for all legal intents and purposes, including the right to contract a subsequent marriage.”
Opposition of the Catholic Church, including lawmakers like Villanueva, and other Christian groups have been one of the biggest hindrances to the passage of the divorce bill. This has left the Philippines the only country in the world, apart from Vatican City, without a divorce law.reading House Bill 7303 which seeks to introduce divorce and the dissolution of marriage in the Philippines. But this fizzled out as no counterpart measure was passed in the Senate.
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