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These newsletters deal with legal and spiritual matters regarding the family, marriage, support, adoption, legal separation, filiation, property rights and property relations between spouses, children, etc.

Issue no. 001 June 17, 2008 "Can a husband and wife in a notarized document declare that they are free to marry other persons and that they will not file charges against each other?"

Issue no. 002 June 31, 2008 "Adultery, concubinage, psychological violence and marital infidelity"

Issue no. 003 July 16, 2008 "If a husband and wife have not seen each other for more than seven years, is their marriage automatically void?"

Issue no. 004 July 31, 2008 "Financial support for abandoned woman and her children"

Issue no. 005 August 15, 2008 "What surname should illegitimate children use? Problems and issues with RA 9255 and its implementing guidelines"

Issue no. 006 August 30, 2008 "The right of a divorced Filipino spouse to remarry under Article 26 of the Family Code"

Issue no. 007 September 15, 2008 "SEC registration of local Baptist churches; corporation sole and religious society or aggregate"

Issue no. 008 September 30, 2008 "Visitation rights over illegitimate children"

Issue no. 009 October 15, 2008 "Due process in the termination of employment; employee must be given five days to answer charges against him"

Issue no. 010 November 15, 2008 "Property rights of foreigners married to Filipino citizens; Can foreign citizens own lands or houses in the Philippines?

Issue no. 011 December 15, 2008 Primer on Republic Act No. 9439 Hospital Detention Law

Issue no. 012 January 15, 2009 Procedures in domestic and inter-country adoption; simulation of birth is illegal

Issue no. 013 February 15, 2009 Can a mother be deprived of custody of her child? What determines the fitness of a parent in custody batlles over children?

Issue no. 014 March 15, 2009 Miss, Ms. or Mrs? Philippine law on surnames for married women

Issue no. 015 April 30, 2009 How to compute the legitime (share in the inheritance) of illegitimate children

Issue no. 016 May 31, 2009 Philippine law on household helpers

Issue no. 017 June 30, 2009 RA 9485 Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007

Issue no. 018 July 31, 2009 Void marriages

Issue no. 019 August 31, 2009 Voidable marriages

Issue no. 020 September 30, 2009 If a woman gets pregnant by a man not her husband, will the child be legitimate or illegitimate?

Issue no. 021 October 31, 2009 Can nephews and nieces inherit from grandparents, unmarried uncles or aunts?