Page 43 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 43. The termination of the subsequent

marriage referred to in the preceding Article

shall produce the following effects:

(1) The children of the subsequent marriage

conceived prior to its termination shall be

considered legitimate;

(2) The absolute community of property or the

conjugal partnership, as the case may be, shall

be dissolved and liquidated, but if either spouse

contracted said marriage in bad faith, his or her

share of the net profits of the community

property or conjugal partnership property shall

be forfeited in favor of the common children or,

if there are none, the children of the guilty

spouse by a previous marriage or in default of

children, the innocent spouse;