Page 31 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 45. A marriage may be annulled for

any of the following causes, existing at the time

of the marriage:

(1) That the party in whose behalf it is sought to

have the marriage annulled was eighteen years

of age or over but below twenty-one, and the

marriage was solemnized without the consent of

the parents, guardian or person having

substitute parental authority over the party, in

that order, unless after attaining the age of

twenty-one, such party freely cohabited with the

other and both lived together as husband and

wife;

(2) That either party was of unsound mind, unless

such party after coming to reason, freely

cohabited with the other as husband and wife;