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"Art. 234. Emancipation takes place by the attainment of majority. Unless otherwise
provided, majority commences at the age of eighteen years."

RULE ON GUARDIANSHIP OF MINORS

Section 1. Applicability of the Rule. This Rule shall apply to petitions for guardianship
over the person or property, or both, of a minor. chan robles virtual law library
The father and the mother shall jointly exercise legal guardianship over the person and
property of their unemancipated common child without the necessity of a court
appointment. In such case, this Rule shall be suppletory to the provisions of the Family
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Sec. 2. Who may petition for appointment of guardian. On grounds authorized by law,
any relative or other person on behalf of a minor, or the minor himself if fourteen years
of age or over, may petition the Family Court for the appointment of a general guardian
over the person or property, or both, of such minor. The petition may also be filed by the
Secretary of Social Welfare and Development and by the Secretary of Health in the case
of an insane minor who needs to be hospitalized.

ARTICLE V
SUFFRAGE
Section 1. Suffrage may be exercised by all citizens of the Philippines not otherwise
disqualified by law, who are at least eighteen years of age, and who shall have resided
in the Philippines for at least one year, and in the place wherein they propose to vote,
for at least six months immediately preceding the election. No literacy, property, or
other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage.
Article 12 ( 2 ) ( 3) RPC
2. A person under nine years of age.
3. A person over nine years of age and under fifteen, unless he has acted with
discernment, in which case, such minor shall be proceeded against in accordance with
the provisions of Art. 80 of this Code.

Article 13 (2) RPC

2. That the offender is under eighteen year of age or over seventy years. In the case of
the minor, he shall be proceeded against in accordance with the provisions of Art. 80.

Family Code Section 5 : 45 (1) (2)

Art. 5. Any male or female of the age of eighteen years or upwards not under any of the
impediments mentioned in Articles 37 and 38, may contract marriage. (54a)
Art. 45. A marriage may be annulled for any of the following causes, existing at the time
of the marriage:
(1) That the party in whose behalf it is sought to have the marriage annulled was
eighteen years of age or over but below twenty-one, and the marriage was
solemnized without the consent of the parents, guardian or person having
substitute parental authority over the party, in that order, unless after attaining
the age of twenty-one, such party freely cohabited with the other and both lived
together as husband and wife;
(2) That either party was of unsound mind, unless such party after coming to
reason, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife;
Article 31 34 41 of the RPC
Art. 31. Effect of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special disqualification. The
penalties of perpetual or temporal special disqualification for public office, profession or
calling shall produce the following effects:
1. The deprivation of the office, employment, profession or calling affected;
2. The disqualification for holding similar offices or employments either
perpetually or during the term of the sentence according to the extent of such
disqualification.
Art. 34. Civil interdiction. Civil interdiction shall deprive the offender during the time
of his sentence of the rights of parental authority, or guardianship, either as to the
person or property of any ward, of marital authority, of the right to manage his property
and of the right to dispose of such property by any act or any conveyance inter vivos.
Art. 41. Reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal; Their accessory penalties. The
penalties of reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal shall carry with them that of civil
interdiction for life or during the period of the sentence as the case may be, and that of
perpetual absolute disqualification which the offender shall suffer even though
pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly
remitted in the pardon.
Article 4 section 1-5
Section 1. The following are citizens of the Philippines:

[1] Those who are citizens of the Philippines at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution;
[2] Those whose fathers or mothers are citizens of the Philippines;
[3] Those born before January 17, 1973, of Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine
citizenship upon reaching the age of majority; and
[4] Those who are naturalized in accordance with law.
Section 2. Natural-born citizens are those who are citizens of the Philippines from birth
without having to perform any act to acquire or perfect their Philippine citizenship.
Those who elect Philippine citizenship in accordance with paragraph (3), Section 1
hereof shall be deemed natural-born citizens.
Section 3. Philippine citizenship may be lost or reacquired in the manner provided by
law.
Section 4. Citizens of the Philippines who marry aliens shall retain their citizenship,
unless by their act or omission, they are deemed, under the law, to have renounced it.
Section 5. Dual allegiance of citizens is inimical to the national interest and shall be
dealt with by law.
Article 2 section 14 Consti

Section 14. The State recognizes the role of women in nation-building, and shall
ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.