MTC RTC
Actions involving personal property
Outside MM - not more than 100,000
Within MM - not more than 200,00
Sum of money excluding interest, damages, fees, etc.
Outside MM - not more than 100,000
Within MM - not more than 200,00
Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
Outside MM - not more than 100,000
Within MM - not more than 200,00
Probate proceedings, testate or intestate, based on gross
value of the estate
Outside MM - not more than 100,000
Exclusive
Within MM - not more than 200,00
Forcible entry and unlawful detainer
Title to or possession of real prop. or any interest therein
Outside MM - not more than 20,000
Within MM - not more than 50,00
Provisional remedies where principal action is within their exclusive of interest, damages, fees and costs:
Original jurisdiction
Concurrent
Cadastral or land registration cases (lots: no controversy
Delegated or opposition) or contested lots, the value of which does
not exceed 100,000 as may be assigned by the SC.
Petitions for habeas corpus in the absence of all RTC
Special
judges in the province or city.
Forcible entry & unlawful detainer, irrespective of amount
Summary of damages or unpaid rentals sought to be recovered.
Procedure All other cases, except probate proceedings, where total
claim does not exceed 10,000, exclusive of interest &
costs.
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Petitions for CPM against CA,
Actions where subject matters are not capable of pecuniary Actions for annulment of judgments of Petitions for guardianship, custody of children, habeas corpus in
CTA, Sandiganbayan, Comelec
estimations. RTCs. relation to custody
and COA.
Petitions for adoption of children and revocation thereof
Compalints for annulment of marriage, declaration of nullity of
Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
marriage & those relating to marital status & property relations of
Outside MM - exceeds 300,000
husband & wife or those living together under diff. status & pet. for
Within MM - exceeds 400,00
dissolution of conjugal partnership of gains
Probate proceedings, testate or intestate, based on gross value
of the estate
Petitions for support and/or acknowledgement
Outside MM - exceeds 300,000
Within MM - exceeds 400,00
Summary judicial proceedings brought under EO 209
Title to or possession of real prop. or any interest therein Petitions for declaration of status of children, their voluntary
Outside MM - exceeds 20,000 commitment and suspension, termination or restoration of parental
Within MM - exceeds 50,00 authority
Other cases where demand or the value of the property,
Petitions for the constitution of the family home
Outside MM - exceeds 300,000
Within MM - exceeds 400,00
Cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any court, tribunal, Cases of domestic violece against women and children but not
person or body exercising quasi or quasi-judicial functions. constituting criminal offenses.
Actions & special proceedings within the exclusive original
jurisdiction of the Court of Agrarian Relations
Actions affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls.
Petitions for CPM against courts of the 1st level and other
bodies
Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto
Petitions for CPM against RTC, CSC, CBAA,
NLRC, other quasi-judicial agencies
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Petitions for review on
certiorari against CA, CTA,
Sandiganbayan and RTC (the
latter, in cases involving:
constitutionality or validity of
Ordinary appeals from RTC, except cases a treaty, intl or executive
All cases decided by lower courts in their respective territorial
exclusively appealable to the SC and agreement, law, PD,
jurisdictions.
from Family Courts. proclamation, order,
instruction, ordinance,
regulation; legality of a tax,
Appellate impost, assessment, toll or a
penalty in relation thereto;
Appeal by petition for review from CSC, jurisdiction of a lower court;
CBAA, SEC, LRA, SSC, OP, CAB, Bureaus of
IPO, NEA, ERB, NTC, DAR (RA 6657), GSIS,
ECC, AIB, IC, PAEC, BOI, CIAC, Office of the
Ombudsman (Admin disciplinary cases)
and any other quasi-judicial agency.
Petitions for review from RTC in cases
appealable thereto from the lower
courts.