Page 34 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 38. The following marriages shall be void

from the beginning for reasons of public policy:

(1) Between collateral blood relatives whether

legitimate or illegitimate, up to the fourth civil

degree;

(2) Between step-parents and step-children;

(3) Between parents-in-law and children-in-law;

(4) Between the adopting parent and the

adopted child;

(5) Between the surviving spouse of the adopting

parent and the adopted child;

(6) Between the surviving spouse of the adopted

child and the adopter;

(7) Between an adopted child and a legitimate

child of the adopter;

(8) Between adopted children of the same

adopter; and

(9) Between parties where one, with the intention

to marry the other, killed that other person's

spouse, or his or her own spouse. (82)