Voiding Philippine marriage made affordable by Supreme Court ruling
In March 2018, House Bill 7303, "An Act Instituting Absolute Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage in the Philippines" languished on the Senate floor, its passage into law uncertain. For almost a year before that, the Philippine Divorce bill was heatedly debated in Congress after it was approved by the House of Representatives and favored by the majority of Filipinos surveyed in a scientific study conducted by the Social Weather Station. For the last 10 years, divorce advocates have been trying to pass an absolute divorce bill but always failed. But in September 2021, a paradigm shift regarding grounds to void a marriage in the Philippines was passed by the Supreme Court making it less costly to prove “psychological incapacity” as a ground for legal separation.