Page 55 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

LEGAL SEPARATION

Article 55. A petition for legal separation may

be filed on any of the following grounds:

(1) Repeated physical violence or grossly

abusive conduct directed against the petitioner,

a common child, or a child of the petitioner;

(2) Physical violence or moral pressure to

compel the petitioner to change religious or

political affiliation;

(3) Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce

the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the

petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or

connivance in such corruption or inducement;

(4) Final judgment sentencing the respondent

to imprisonment of more than six years, even if

pardoned;