ANNULMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES

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 May I know what are the grounds to declare a marriage void?

The following are the grounds to declare a marriage void:

1. Those contracted by any party below eighteen years of age even with the consent of their parents or guardians;
2. Those solemnized by any person not legally authorized to perform marriages unless such marriages were contracted with either or both parties believing in good faith that the solemnizing officer had the legal authority to do so;
3. Those solemnized without license unless falling under the exceptions where no marriage license is required;
4. Those bigamous or polygamous marriages;
5. Those contracted through mistake of one contracting party as to the identity of the other;
6. Psychological Incapacity of the husband or wife, existing at the time of marriage, which prevents him or her from complying with the essential marital obligations of marriage, even if such incapacity becomes manifest only after the solemnization of the marriage;
7. Incestuous Marriages (between ascendants and descendants; between brothers and sisters whether full or half blood);
8. Marriages between relatives:

1. between collateral blood relatives, whether legitimate or illegitimate, up to the fourth civil degree;
2. between step-parents and step-children;
3. between parents-in-law and children-in-law;
4. between the adopting parent and the adopted child;
5. between the surviving spouse of the adopting parent and the adopted child;
6. between the surviving spouse of the adopted child and the adopter;
7. between an adopted child and a legitimate child of the adopter;
8. between adopted children of the same adopter;
9. between parties where one, with the intention to marry the other, killed the other person’s spouse, or his or her own spouse.