KARAPATAN NG MAG-ASAWANG LEGALLY SEPARATED

SANG-AYON sa Article 55 ng Family Code of the Philippines, ang isang Petition for Legal Separation ay maaaring ihain base sa mga sumusunod:

- NI DR. PERSIDA V. RUEDA-ACOSTA Chief Public Attorney

1. Repeated physical violence or grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner;

2. Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the petitioner to change religious or political affiliation;

3. Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such corruption or inducement;

4. Final judgment sentencing the respondent to imprisonment of more than six years, even if pardoned;

5. Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the respondent;

6. Lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent;

7. Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines or abroad;

8. Sexual infidelity or perversion;