Category Archives: Batas Pinoy

RIGHTS OF A CO-OWNER

Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column, could you please give me an advice about my rights of a real properties that that I and my siblings have inherited from our parents. I know that as co-heirs, I am entitled to the share of the commercial property in the Philippines. It is now my older sibling who… Read More »

ACQUIRING PROPERTIES BY COMMON-LAW PARTNERS

Q. Hi Atty Wong, ask ko lang po kung pwede kaming bumili nang partner ko nang lupa sa Pilipinas. Kasalukuyan pong naka file sa court ang kanyang annulment. I’m a Canadian citizen and he is Filipino but working in Kuwait. Hindi po ba hahabulin nang ex-wife niya ang bibilhin naming property? Gusto ko lang pong makasiguro bago kami… Read More »

ENTITLEMENT OF INHERITANCE

Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column I wish to ask your assistance in matters of inheritance issues. My deceased father has four (4) siblings. His brother , who is actually my uncle Mike and single and without any child died few years ago, leaves an estate consisting of commercial apartments somewhere in Quezon City, Metro Manila.… Read More »

Step-children and inheritance

Q. My father had a property in Philippines and passed away many years ago without leaving a will. The property (house and lot) is still under his name. I am one of two surviving legitimate children (call us A and B). Before my father married my mother, my mother had four children with a previous marriage (she was… Read More »

ENTITLEMENT OF INHERITANCE

Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column I wish to ask your assistance in matters of inheritance issues. My deceased father has four (4) siblings. His brother , who is actually my uncle Mike and single and without any child died few years ago, leaves an estate consisting of commercial apartments somewhere in Quezon City, Metro Manila.… Read More »

PAGGAMIT NG APELYIDO

Q. Unang Tanong: Dear atty, akoy isang seaman,bago ako umalis taon 1997 mayron akong girlfriend na ang mga magulang ay ayaw sa akin para sa kanilang anak,lingid sa aking kaalaman nabuntis at nakapanganak ang aking girlfriend nang wala akong alam at di nya nilagay ang pangalan ko sa birth certificate bilang ama (actually blanko ang sa father side),lumipas… Read More »

DONATION/DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY

Q. I am in my senior years. Since retiring from government service few years ago, I now live in Canada with my niece. I have properties in the Philippines consisting of a 4-door apartment building. The monthly rental income of this property is the primary source of my income to augment my meager pension from the GSIS. As… Read More »

MARRIAGE IN TORONTO WITH FILIPINO TOURIST

Q. I have a couple of questions for you: I married my Filipino fiancé (a widower) but we knew each other since we were young). We got married in Toronto last November in a civil ceremony. I have never been married before. He lives in Calamba City. I am a Canadian citizen living in Toronto since 1993. He… Read More »

DIVIDING THE INHERITANCE

Q. Few years after my mother died, my father passed away in the Philippines. He left four (4) parcels of land in Caloocan City. There are five of us siblings who will inherit from the property. I am the eldest. My other four siblings as well as my step-mother assert that we should divided the estate equally and… Read More »