Q. Hi Atty. Wong, I was married to MEL in 1989 when I was only 19 years old with the consent of our parents. We have two children who are now 23 and 21 years old respectively. They are still in the Philippines. However, sometime in year 2001 our marriage soured and in the presence of our barangay… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column, could you please give me an advice about my rights of a real properties that that I and my siblings have inherited from our parents. I know that as co-heirs, I am entitled to the share of the commercial property in the Philippines. It is now my older sibling who… Read More »
Beyond the backdrop of trees and flowering plants lining the path towards our house, I often times heard from old folks as they sipped their freshly brewed Batangas coffee in a morning tete-a-tete the often repeated and often uttered philosophical view that marriage is a sacred institution that no one put asunder. To those old folks, marriage is… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty Wong, ask ko lang po kung pwede kaming bumili nang partner ko nang lupa sa Pilipinas. Kasalukuyan pong naka file sa court ang kanyang annulment. I’m a Canadian citizen and he is Filipino but working in Kuwait. Hindi po ba hahabulin nang ex-wife niya ang bibilhin naming property? Gusto ko lang pong makasiguro bago kami… Read More »
“The only problem is that a good man like a hard case makes a bad justice – a chief justice at that.” Now that the chief justice had been impeached, there has been a deluge of notable names being touted as the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The names of Gilbert Teodoro, Miriam… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column I wish to ask your assistance in matters of inheritance issues. My deceased father has four (4) siblings. His brother , who is actually my uncle Mike and single and without any child died few years ago, leaves an estate consisting of commercial apartments somewhere in Quezon City, Metro Manila.… Read More »
Q. My father had a property in Philippines and passed away many years ago without leaving a will. The property (house and lot) is still under his name. I am one of two surviving legitimate children (call us A and B). Before my father married my mother, my mother had four children with a previous marriage (she was… Read More »
“He had butterflies in his belly but he was quite assured that his harrowing experience will finally be over.” It was past half twelve and the freezing cold made his bones chill. He went closed to the blue-sheet covered bed, fell like a log, the right arm T-squared on his receding forehead, his eyelids meeting on the centre… Read More »
“There are many of us who see things as they are and ask ourselves why, but we must dream of things that never were and ask ourselves why not?” George Bernard Shaw On the occasion of the first induction of the Laoacanians Association of North America (LANA), I have quoted George Bernard Shaw’s inspiring 29 words to rally… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column I wish to ask your assistance in matters of inheritance issues. My deceased father has four (4) siblings. His brother , who is actually my uncle Mike and single and without any child died few years ago, leaves an estate consisting of commercial apartments somewhere in Quezon City, Metro Manila.… Read More »