Q. My brother, a retired Navy man married a Filipina in the late sixties. They moved to Bulan in the eighties and bought a small parcel of land and built a home. My brother told me since he was not a Filipino citizen, he could not own land in the Philippines. Thus the land and house were put… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty , my younger sister, Eva, lived but was not legally adopted by the eldest sister of my mother when she was about two(2) years old. The couple, being childless, considered Eva as their own child. Eva lived with them and sent her to school through college. In 2000, my uncle died. All of the properties… Read More »
Q.Back home about five(5) years ago, I helped a close family friend to obtain a loan from a lending company. I wrote a letter to this lending company who happened to be owned and managed by my compadre. I am not sure whether what I did was a form of guaranty. However, this letter made reference to the… Read More »
Q. In your previous column, I read about a husband seeking clarification over the rights and status of certain real estate property , where in the title of the land as stated in Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT), was in the name of the husband married to…the name of the wife. According to that particular column of yours,… Read More »
Q. I would like to request clarification on the validity of ownership for a piece of property purchased by my Mother sometime in 1996. After the execution of the Deed of Absolutely sale of the subject property the same was registered and the land title that was issued bared the names of my mother, my sister and me… Read More »
Q. Dear Atty.Wong, I have always read your column with interest and now I have some issues which I hope you can answer. I need your help. I came to Canada in 1974. I’m now a Canadian Citizen, have dual citizenships (Filipino/Canadian), married to natural-born Canadian citizen. We have two adult children, born in Canada. Back in the… Read More »
Q. Hello Atty. Wong. I had consulted you before through your column Batas Pinoy Corner of which I’m so much satisfied with your answers. I would like again to have your views about our Inherited properties as follows : 1. Our parents are both now in their second life and they left us a parcel of land with… Read More »
Q. Dear Atty. Wong, I read your column in the Balita – Fil-Canadian Community Newspaper so, I took this opportunity to seek your views on a legal issue. I know that Philippine law has a ‘prescription period’ for legal cases. However, what I wanted to know is if it applies to ALL cases especially family law. Sometime 1999,… Read More »
Q. Sometime in 2007 while in the Philippines, my husband abandoned me and our two children. The incurable promiscuity, vicious vices like gambling and his volcanic temper were the primary causes of our marriage breakdown. Freed from this bondage, I did not contest our separation. Thereafter, I and my children left the country and are now settled in … Read More »
Q. I am now a Canadian citizen. I intend to retire in two (2) years in my home town province in the Philippines. I’m planning to develop and use the Canadian hydro-phonic agriculture technology to the three(3) hectares of land that I’ve asked my brother to buy for me earlier . Based on my research, this farming technology… Read More »