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RA 386 (Civil Code of the Philippines) Article 91

RA 386 (Civil Code of the Philippines) Article 91

Article 91

ART. 91. Damages may be awarded in the following cases when the marriage is judicially annulled or declared void from the beginning: (1) If there has been fraud, force or intimidation in obtaining the consent of one of the contracting parties; (2) If either party was, at the time of the marriage, physically incapable of entering into the married state, and the other party was unaware thereof; (3) If the person solemnizing the marriage was not legally authorized to perform marriages, and that fact was known to one of the contracting parties, but he or she concealed it from the other; (4) If a bigamous or polygamous marriage was celebrated, and the impediment was concealed from the plaintiff by the party disqualified; (5) If in an incestuous marriage, or a marriage between a stepbrother and a stepsister or other marriage prohibited by article 82, the relationship was known to only one of the contracting parties but was not disclosed to the other; (6) If one party was insane and the other was aware thereof at the time of the marriage. (n)

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