I was in a restaurant two days ago; Next to our table was a young family, a couple with three children. The eldest child was about six, the second, maybe three and the youngest, a six month infant. It was a buffet and the mother left the table with the two older children to get food. The father… Read More »
The decision of the Philippine government to pledge $1 billion to the $456-billion standby fund being put up by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help distressed countries in Europe has raised questions from several sectors. Foremost of these questions is why lend $1 billion when the Philippines is drowning in debt? Another question that has been raised… 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 »
The loss of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao to Timothy Bradley would most likely become one of the most controversial fights in boxing history and could become the catalyst for reforms in the way fights are judged. These are the facts: The round-by-round Lederman Card showed Pacquiao winning, a total of 119 over Bradley’s 109. Lederman gave Round 10 to… 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 »
Renato Corona is a giant of a man. He towers above practically all whom he talks to. He’s easily over 200 pounds, perhaps 230, 240. His full crop of hair and his taut and smooth face belie his 63 years. He walks with an awkward gait, like one who treads a bed of hot coal or of broken… 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 »
Art T. Viola is not an average retiree. There is a man who has spent his life in service of the people and lovingly caring for his family in a foreign land that he now calls home. Art T. Viola is an epitome of the merging of two cultures that have produced a personality that Filipino immigrants anywhere… Read More »