Page 8 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 16. Real property as well as personal

property is subject to the law of the country

where it is stipulated.

However, intestate and testamentary

successions, both with respect to the order of

succession and to the amount of successional

rights and to the intrinsic validity of

testamentary provisions, shall be regulated by

the national law of the person whose succession

is under consideration, whatever may be the

nature of the property and regardless of the

country wherein said property may be found.

(10a)

Article 17. The forms and solemnities of

contracts, wills, and other public instruments

shall be governed by the laws of the country in

which they are executed.