Muslim Divorce Legal Services in the Philippines

30/01/2026

Divorce happens. But doing these things in the first 12 months after the split is not advisable.

04/04/2025

The dissatisfactions of heterosexual marriages have been the focus of many recent memoirs by women chronicling the dissolution of their relationships. On the whole, these books “present divorce as liberation and marriage as oppressive,” Molly Fischer writes. “No Fault,” by Haley Mlotek, stands out for its measured, equivocal tone. Mlotek and her husband separated after 13 years together, with none of the complicating factors that often accompany separations—no kids, no entangled finances, no debts, no pets, no blame, no malice. “The whole experience took place under circumstances so neatly constrained as to resemble a thought experiment,” Fischer notes. What does the end of marriage, in itself, do to a person? Fischer writes about the zero-sum narratives we often hear about divorce, and how Mlotek’s memoir complicates them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/no-fault-haley-mlotek-book-review?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fnewyorkermag%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F516421441

01/03/2025

🌙✨ RAMADHAN MUBARAK ✨🌙
From the Muslim Lawyers of Zamboanga, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi

May this holy month bring peace, wisdom, and justice to our hearts and communities. As we embrace the virtues of faith, patience, and generosity, may we continue to uphold the rule of law with integrity and compassion.

May Allah (SWT) bless us with the strength to seek truth, serve with justice, and advocate for the rights of those in need.

Ramadhan Mubarak! 🤲🕌

📖 "And establish justice and do not act unjustly. Indeed, Allah loves the just."
(Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:8)

27/02/2025

People think divorcees are the worst of people yet they forget that even some of the companions of the Prophet divorced, and they were the best of those who understood and practiced Islam.

Consider that Zubair bin Alawam was one of the ten men guaranteed paradise by the Prophet in his lifetime, yet his wife Asma divorced him despite him having sucha lofty status. She sought the divorce because they didn’t get along despite her father disapproving of it. Was she ridiculed or ostracised? No!

Why then do we do it to our sisters? If Asma (ra) left her husband because they couldn’t get along, then why can't a sister leave because of abuse?! Allaah has made divorce a solution NOT a punishment.

The Prophet’s wife Khadija (ra) was married twice and widowed both times; she had 3 children before she married the prophet (peace be upon him), were they seen as a burden? NO! They lived with them and the Prophet Of Allaah helped raise them.

To the sisters wanting to flee abusive marriages or even marriages where they aren't happy and they are told by scholars to have sabr and wait it out ask them for DALEEL (proof). There is NO evidence from the Qur'an or sunnah that says a woman must stay or have sabr (patience) when she is suffering abuse. Men say this as they are men. Would these men advise their daughters the same thing?

If you find someone with Aqeedah AND Ahlaq then by all means get married but DON'T settle for second best and don't stress if you are divorced thinking you won't remarry. Men are supposed to compliment you not be an added stress!

This poisonous thinking is cultural NOT Islamic. The women of the past would be approached for marriage AS SOON AS their iddat was up. The Prophets own daughters were divorcees (they were married to the sons of Abu Lahab)! If it was always the woman's fault then why were they referred to as 'light' when they married Uthman Ibn Affan?! He was known as 'the possessor of the two lights' the "lights" being Ruqqayah and Umm Kulthum (ra).
.. Life has enough turbulence to throw at us as it is, let us not be the cause of making it any more difficult for our women.

05/01/2025

Online consultation with divorce client from Dubai.

20/09/2024

SC: Maaaring kilalanin sa Pilipinas ang divorce kahit hindi dumaan sa korte sa ibang bansa

Hindi kinakailangang dumaan sa korte ang divorce sa ibang bansa para mabigyan ng bisa sa Pilipinas.

Ito ang naging Desisyon ng Korte Suprema sa kaso ng isang Pilipina na nakakuha ng divorce sa Japan mula sa kanyang asawang Hapon sa pamamagitan ng isang kasunduan.

Para kilalanin sa Pilipinas ang kanyang divorce, naghain siya sa Regional Trial Court (RTC) ng petition for judicial recognition of foreign divorce na ipinagkaloob ng RTC. Kinwestiyon ito sa Korte Suprema ng Office of the Solicitor General.

Sa Desisyon na isinulat ni Associate Justice Japar B. Dimaampao, maaaring kilalanin ang divorce sa ibang bansa basta ito ay tanggap sa batas ng bansang nagkaloob nito, maging ito man ay dumaan sa judicial o administrative proceeding, o sa pamamagitan ng kasunduan ng mag-asawa.

Sa ilalim ng Article 26(2) ng Family Code, ang mga Pilipinong dating kasal sa dayuhan ay maaaring humiling sa mga korte ng Pilipinas na kilalanin ang divorce na wasto nitong nakuha sa ibang bansa, para maiwasan ang sitwasyon na pwede na mag-asawa ang dayuhan sa ibang bansa pero bawal pa rin mag-asawang muli ang Pilipino sa Pilipinas.

Pero ibinalik ng Korte Suprema sa RTC ang kaso para mabigyan ng pagkakataon ang Pilipina na patunayan ang batas ng Japan.

Basahin ang buong press release: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/sc-recognition-of-divorce-not-limited-to-those-decreed-by-foreign-courts/

Basahin ang buong kaso: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/249238-republic-of-the-philippines-vs-ruby-cuevas-ng-a-k-a-ruby-ng-sono/

29/08/2024

The Supreme Court has ruled that decades-long unjustified absence from the marital home may be considered evidence of psychological incapacity to comply with marital obligations.

Read more at: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/sc-unjustified-absence-from-marital-home-considered-psychological-incapacity/

04/08/2024

03/08/2024

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Wild times

01/07/2024

Divorce obtained abroad by the foreigner husband may be recognized by Philippine courts to dissolve the PSA-registered civil or church marriage.

Carla Abellana disclosed that the divorce decree obtained by her former husband Tom Rodriguez, an American citizen, is now recognized by the Philippine court, about two years after it was finalized in the United States.

READ MORE: https://inqnews.net/4tP03c