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For married women, it is not easy to drop your husband's surname in your name especially if you are using it already for a long time in your identification cards, officials documents, and records.
Many women are still using their husband's surname even if the latter has abandoned them in a decade, suffers death or separation because doing so need a court order.
But if Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's bill will pass, dropping husbands surname will be easy.
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In House Bill 6028 or Revision to the Maiden Name Act, Arroyo's proposal is to allow women to get back their maiden name in case of legal separation, presumptive death, abandonment, separation of property or dissolution of marriage.
It says the bill aims to empower women to use their maiden surname after legal separation or dissolution of marriage without a court order.
Under the proposed measure, a woman may use her maiden surname after legal separation, annulment, nullity of marriage, or divorce in another country through only an administrative process with the Office of the Civil Registrar.
GMA Version's of the Bill
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This will be allowed under these circumstances:
In the Senate, Senator Nancy Binay files the same bill that aims to simplify the process by going through the local registry and no longer through a court.
Last August 7, Binay filed the Senate Bill No. 1547 or the proposed Reversion to Maiden Name Act, which identifies the grounds that would allow a woman to file a verified petition for reversion before the local civil registry office of the city or municipality where her record is kept.
Sen. Nancy Binay's Version of the Bill
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- After her marriage has been judicially declared null and void or after its annulment
- After a judicial declaration of legal separation provided that there has been no manifestation of reconciliation filed with the court
- After a judicial declaration of separation of property, provided there has been no subsequent decree reviving the old property regime between the spouses
- If the spouses stipulated in their marriage settlement that a regime of' separation of properties shall govern their property relations
- If the petitioner has been de facto separated from or abandoned by her husband for a period of not less than 10 years
- If the petitioner's husband may be presumed dead pursuant to the circumstances, periods and conditions set forth in the Civil Code of the Philippines and the Rules of Court.
In the Senate, Senator Nancy Binay files the same bill that aims to simplify the process by going through the local registry and no longer through a court.
Last August 7, Binay filed the Senate Bill No. 1547 or the proposed Reversion to Maiden Name Act, which identifies the grounds that would allow a woman to file a verified petition for reversion before the local civil registry office of the city or municipality where her record is kept.
Sen. Nancy Binay's Version of the Bill
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