Page 51 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 50. The effects provided for by

paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5) of Article 43 and

by Article 44 shall also apply in the proper

cases to marriages which are declared ab initio

or annulled by final judgment under Articles 40

and 45.

The final judgment in such cases shall provide

for the liquidation, partition and distribution of

the properties of the spouses, the custody and

support of the common children, and the

delivery of third presumptive legitimes, unless

such matters had been adjudicated in previous

judicial proceedings.

All creditors of the spouses as well as of the

absolute community or the conjugal

partnership shall be notified of the proceedings

for liquidation.