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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Manila – Former president and now Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo proposed a bill allowing separated women to reuse their maiden names even without a court order.
House Bill No. 6028, or the Reversion to Maiden Name Act, permits women to revert to their former surnames after legal separation and annulment or declaration of nullity of their marriages.
“In case of separation, laws do not allow a woman to reuse her maiden name without a judicial order,” Arroyo said.
The bill will also expand the scope of the civil registrar’s power to change or correct entries in the civil register without a need of a judicial order.
Women can also revert to their maiden names after a judicial declaration of separation of property, provided there has been no subsequent decree reviving the old property regime between the spouses.
“The reversion can be done through a petition filed with the Civil Registrar General, which will be authorized to issue the rules and regulations for the implementation of the proposed law,” Arroyo explained./PN
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