My daughters, 12 and 10, and I were watching C.S.I. last night and my husband who could overhear their questions and my answers, irritatingly commented: “Do they have to watch that show? Do you have to talk to them about sex and rape?”
I did not get defensive. I understood. He is very protective of the [...]
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No marriage is perfect. Marriages are not “made in heaven”. Every couple has their share of arguments–sometimes over trivial things, at other times over more serious issues. But some spouses do some very strange things indeed…
Seems women everywhere suffer from rages of drunken husbands. In India, a women empowerment campaign has a proposal: three years [...]
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Ah, perspectives.
Doc Emer has an entry about a doctor who acquiesced with the wife’s request to retrieve sperm from her dying husband after his death. While Doc Emer, being a physician, dissects the issue based on bioethics, I, on the other hand, see the legal difficulties.
This is not about a woman simply wanting to have [...]
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The good news is that a solo parent can demand to work on a flexi-hour schedule for as long as he/she works for the number of hours required by the employer. That means a solo parent can demand a different time of arrival and departure from the place of work.
Republic Act No. 8972 defines a [...]
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Adoption has many legal effects. It grants the adopted child the rights of a legitimate child in relation to his adoptive parents. It terminates the parental authority of the natural (biological) parents over the child. In the case of hereditary succession, the adopted child enjoys something that other legitimate children do not. Aside from being [...]
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In Philippine law, unless there is a pre-nuptial agreement that sets forth the regime that will govern property relations between husband and wife, the default applies–absolute community of property. That means all present and future properties of both spouses form part of the community. Both have equal rights over the management of the community.
In general [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
