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(4) Such incapacity must also be shown to be medically or clinically
permanent or incurable. Such incurability may be absolute or even relative
only in regard to the other spouse, not necessarily absolutely against
everyone of the same sex. Furthermore, such incapacity must be relevant to
the assumption of marriage obligations, not necessarily to those not related
to marriage, like the exercise of a profession or employment in a job. Hence,
a pediatrician may be effective in diagnosing illnesses of children and
prescribing medicine to cure them but may not be psychologically
capacitated to procreate, bear and raise his/her own children as an essential
obligation of marriage.
(5) Such illness must be grave enough to bring about the disability of the
party to assume the essential obligations of marriage. Thus, "mild
characterological peculiarities, mood changes, occasional emotional
outbursts" cannot be accepted as root causes. The illness must be shown as
downright incapacity or inability, not a refusal, neglect or difficulty, much
less ill will. In other words, there is a natal or supervening disabling factor in
the person, an adverse integral element in the personality structure that
effectively incapacitates the person from really accepting and thereby
complying with the obligations essential to marriage.
(6) The essential marital obligations must be those embraced by Articles 68
up to 71 of the Family Code as regards the husband and wife as well as
Articles 220, 221 and 225 of the same Code in regard to parents and their
children. Such non-complied marital obligation(s) must also be stated in the
petition, proven by evidence and included in the text of the decision.
Here, however, the petitioner presented no evidence to show that the anti-social
behavior manifested by both parties had been grave, and had existed at the time of the
celebration of the marriage as to render the parties incapable of performing all the
essential marital obligations provided by law. As the records bear out, the medical
experts merely concluded that the behavior was grave enough as to incapacitate the
parties from the performance of their essential marital relationship because the parties
exhibited symptoms of an anti-social personality disorder. Also, the incapacity was not
established to have existed at the time of the celebration of the marriage. In short, the
conclusion about the parties being psychologically incapacitated was not founded on
sufficient evidence.
III.
Former Filipinos have the limited right to own
public agricultural lands in the Philippines
We next deal with the ownership of lands by aliens.
Properties accumulated by a married couple may either be real or personal. While the
RTC awarded herein all personal properties in favor of Angelita pursuant to the
"Matrimonial Property Agreement" executed in Germany, it ignored that such
agreement was governed by the national law of the contracting parties; and that the
forms and solemnities of contracts, wills, and other public instruments should be
governed by the laws of the country in which they are executed.[15]
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