UP Law Professor and author Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan on Tuesday presented data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showing that the country now has more illegitimate or non-marital children.Aguiling-Pangalangan made the presentation as a “friend of the court” when SC tackled the rights of illegitimate children to claim an inheritance.
“The bigger number of non-marital children as shown by statistics would also be reflective of a change in societal attitudes with respect to marital children and non-marital children, meaning is it safe to assume based on these statistics that now … society is more than willing to accept non-marital children as human beings equal in the eyes of the law and of God and of everything else that stands in our universe?” Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando asked.
Article 992 of the New Civil Code was the subject of Tuesday’s oral argument. Under Article 992, an illegitimate child has no right to inherit from the inheritance of the legitimate relatives of his or her parents. Former Ateneo Law Dean Cynthia Del Castillo said the issue of unfairness “is the one that strikes the heart most.”
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