Page 49 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 47. The action for annulment of

marriage must be filed by the following persons

and within the periods indicated herein:

(1) For causes mentioned in number 1 of

Article 45 by the party whose parent or

guardian did not give his or her consent,

within five years after attaining the age of

twenty-one, or by the parent or guardian or

person having legal charge of the minor, at

any time before such party has reached the

age of twenty-one;

(2) For causes mentioned in number 2 of

Article 45, by the same spouse, who had no

knowledge of the other's insanity; or by any

relative or guardian or person having legal

charge of the insane, at any time before the

death of either party, or by the insane

spouse during a lucid interval or after

regaining sanity;