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Mar 31, 2022 · In a Decision penned by Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen, the Court En Banc reinterpreted Article 992 of the Civil Code, which prohibits nonmarital children from inheriting from their siblings who are marital children, as well as “relatives of [their] father or mother [.]”.
Mar 31, 2022 · In the past, the Court interpreted Article 992 as prohibiting non-marital children from inheriting from grandparents and other direct ascendants, including relatives. The case stemmed...
Art. 992 of the Civil Code provides that illegitimate children cannot inherit ab intestato from the legitimate children and relatives of his mother or father. Legitimate children and relatives cannot inherit in the same way from the illegitimate child.
The Civil Code of the Philippines apparently adhered to this principle since it reproduced Article 943 of the Spanish Code in its own Art. 992, but with fine inconsistency, in subsequent articles (990, 995 and 998) our Code allows the hereditary portion of the illegitimate child to pass to his own descendants, whether legitimate or illegitimate.
Under Article 992 of the New Civil Code, an illegitimate child has no right to inherit from the relatives of his or her father or mother except through testate succession. If the grandparents died intestate (meaning, they died without will and testament), an illegitimate child will not have a share to the properties of the grandparents.
Mar 31, 2022 · The Supreme Court has revisited Article 992 of the Civil Code of the Philippines prohibiting non-marital children from inheriting from their siblings who are marital children, and from their paternal and maternal relatives.
Mar 31, 2022 · Article 992 of the Civil Code says an “illegitimate child has no right to inherit ab intestato from the legitimate children and relatives of his father or mother; nor shall such...
