Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is not only pushing the legalization of same sex unions, he also wants to amend the Family Code so that the provision on absolute conjugal property will be abolished.

Article 75 of the Family Code states that “in the absence of a marriage settlement or when the regime agreed upon is void, the system of absolute community of property as established in this Code shall govern.”

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