SUMMARY

"A DECREE TO ORDAIN AND PROMULGATE A CODE RECOGNIZING THE SYSTEM OF FILIPINO MUSLIM LAWS, CODIFYING MUSLIM PERSONAL LAWS, AND PROVIDING FOR ITS ADMINISTRATION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"

Signed: February 4, 1977

This decree recognizes the system of Filipino Muslim laws and is a codification of Muslim personal laws. It also provides for its administration and for other purposes. These Muslim laws are about the following: capacity to contract marriage, authority to solemnize marriage, place of solemnization, specification of dower, payment of dower, prohibition due to fosterage (tahrim-birrada'a), by a husband, by widow, by divorce, marriage after three talag, rights and obligations of husbands and wives, ante-nuptial property, exclusive property of each spouse, rights to sue and be sued, definition and forms, divorce by talag, divorce by ila, divorce by zihar, divorce by lián, divorce by khul', divorce by faskh, faskhon the ground of unusual cruelty, effects of irrevocable talag or faskh, effects of other kinds of divorce, idda defined, period of idda, children of subsequent marriage, pregnancy after dissolution of marriage, rights of legitimate child, acknowledgement of a child by the father, adoption, support for wife and infant, effects upon property of children, extinguishment of parental authority, care and custody, guardian for marriage (wali), guardian of minor's property, registration of revocation of divorce, succession from acknowledging person, succession by a legitimate child, succession between divorced persons, succession by absentee, order of succession, bequest by operation of law, share of surviving grandmother, share of surviving mother, share of surviving paternal grandfather, share of surviving grandmother, share of surviving daughter, share of son's daughter, share of full sister, share of consanguine sister, divorce by talag and tafwid, subsequent marriages, and marriage before expiration of ‘idda.