Page 48 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 46. Any of the following circumstances

shall constitute fraud referred to in Number 3

of the preceding Article:

(1) Non-disclosure of a previous conviction by

final judgment of the other party of a crime

involving moral turpitude;

(2) Concealment by the wife of the fact that at

the time of the marriage, she was pregnant by

a man other than her husband;

(3) Concealment of sexually transmissible

disease, regardless of its nature, existing at the

time of the marriage; or

(4) Concealment of drug addiction, habitual

alcoholism or homosexuality or lesbianism

existing at the time of the marriage.

No other misrepresentation or deceit as to

character, health, rank, fortune or chastity shall

constitute such fraud as will give grounds for

action for the annulment of marriage. (86a)