Family Code - Marriages Exempted from License Requirement (Art. 27 - 34)

Question 1

What marriages do not require a license?

Answer 1

1. Marriage in articulo mortis
2. Marriage in a far and remote place
3. Marriages among Muslims or among members of the ethnic cultural communities may be performed validly without the necessity of marriage license, provided they are solemnized in accordance with their customs, rites or practices

Question 2

Requisites of Marital Cohabitation

Answer 2

1. The contracting parties must have lived together as husband and wife for at least five years before the marriage they are entering into.
2. No legal impediment of any kind must exist between them. For example, they must not be first cousins, or stepbrother and stepsister.
3. Requirements (a), (b) and (c) must be stated in an affidavit before any person authorized by law to administer oaths.
4. The necessary affidavit of the person solemnizing the marriage.