Requisites of marriage (Articles 20 to 26)

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Art. 20. The license shall be valid in for a period of from the date of issue, and shall be deemed at the expiration of the said period if the contracting parties have not made use of it. The shall be stamped in bold characters on the face of every license issued.

Art. 21. When either or both of the contracting parties are , it shall be necessary for them before a marriage license can be obtained, to submit a to contract marriage, issued by their respective diplomatic or consular officials.

Stateless persons or shall, in lieu of the certificate of legal capacity herein required, submit an affidavit stating the circumstances showing such capacity to contract marriage.

Art. 22. The marriage certificate, in which the parties shall declare that they take each other as husband and wife, shall also state:

(1) The of each contracting party;

(2) Their citizenship, religion and ;

(3) The date and of the celebration of the marriage;

(4) That the has been issued according to law, except in marriage provided for in Chapter 2 of this Title;

(5) That either or both of the contracting parties have secured the in appropriate cases;

(6) That either or both of the contracting parties have complied with the legal requirement regarding in appropriate cases; and

(7) That the parties have entered into , if any, attaching a copy thereof.

Art. 23. It shall be the duty of the person solemnizing the marriage to furnish either of the contracting parties the referred to in Article 6 and to send the duplicate and triplicate copies of the certificate not later than after the marriage, to the local civil registrar of the place where the marriage was solemnized. Proper receipts shall be issued by the local civil registrar to the solemnizing officer transmitting copies of the marriage certificate. The solemnizing officer shall retain in his file the quadruplicate copy of the marriage certificate, the of the marriage license and, in proper cases, the affidavit of the contracting party regarding the solemnization of the marriage in place other than those mentioned in Article 8.

Art. 24. It shall be the duty of the local civil registrar to required by this Title, and to to all interested parties without any charge in both cases. The documents and affidavits filed in connection with applications for marriage licenses shall be exempt from documentary stamp tax.

Art. 25. The local civil registrar concerned shall enter all applications for marriage licenses filed with him in a registry book strictly in the order in which the same are received. He shall record in said book the names of the applicants, the , and such other data as may be necessary.

Art. 26. All marriages solemnized outside the Philippines, in accordance with the , and valid there as such, shall also be valid in this country, except those prohibited under Articles 35 (1), (4), (5) and (6), 36, 37 and 38.

Where a marriage between a Filipino citizen and a foreigner is validly celebrated and a divorce is thereafter validly obtained abroad by the alien spouse , the Filipino spouse shall have capacity to remarry under Philippine law. (As amended by Executive Order 227)

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