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19 VOID MARRIAGES

1-6: ABSENCE IN ESSENTIAL REQUISITES: 1. Those contracted by any party below 18 years of age even with the consent of the parents or guardians. 2. Those solemnized by any person not legally authorized to perform marriages unless such marriages were contracted with either or both parties believing in good faith that the solemnizing officer had the legal capacity to do so. 3. Those solemnized without a license except those ratified due to marital cohabitation for 5 years under article 34 of the Family Code. 4. Those polygamous or bigamous marriages not falling under article 41 of the Family Code. 5. Those contracted through mistake of one contracting party as to the identity of the other. 6. Those subsequent marriages which are void because of the absence of declaration of annulment or nullity of the previous marriage under article 53 of the Family Code. 7. Void because of Psychological Incapacity 8-9: VOID BECAUSE INCESTUOUS 8. Between ascendants and descendants of any degree 9. Between brothers and sisters whether full or half-blood 10-18: VOID BECAUSE AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY 10. Between collateral blood relatives, whether legitimate or illegitimate, up to the fourth civil degree 11. Between step-parents and step-children By affinity 12. Between parents-in-law and children-in-law 13. Between the adopting parent and adopted child 14. Between the surviving spouse of the adopting parent and the adopted child Adoptive 15. Between the surviving spouse of the adopted child and the adopter Relationship 16. Between the adopted child and the legitimate child of the adopter 17. Between the adopted children of the same adopter 18. Between parties where one, with the intention to marry the other, killed that other persons spouse or his or her own spouse. 19. In the case where one party is declared presumptively dead, the subsequent marriage will be considered void if both parties are guilty of bad faith.

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