For the moms who’ve been asking where they can seek help for support, you can seek out this division of the POEA.
Assistance and Welfare Division, Welfare Service Branch
2nd Floor, POEA Building
Tel. No. 722-11-96/722-11-82
You have to bring your marriage contract (if married), and the birth certificate of your child/ren.
If you already have a court order, you [...]

The question most asked by many women is how much they can ask for child support. Although there are a lot of factors to consider, usually it’s around 25% to 30% of the father’s salary, but not less than P3,000/month. I’ve repeated this information a couple of times already, but I would like to expound [...]

When I talk to lawyers, or when I read their blogs; I always, always get a headache from trying to understand what they’re trying to say. All the mumbo jumbo about family law drives me crazy, and these “lawyer terms” are just so hard to understand. Whoever wrote the family code must not have wanted [...]

Let me be clear on this first; there’s a big difference with the outcome of filing a civil case and a criminal case. I have always stressed to those who have emailed me that a civil case is enough to get child support. That’s why I got really irritated when I received an email [...]

After much confusion with regards to the unfair Inheritance Law in the Philippines, I was finally consoled by a lawyer friend. At first glance at the Family Code, I thought that an illegitimate child is only entitled to half what a legitimate child can inherit. An example would be; a man has 3 legitimate [...]