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Grounds for the ff:

 Declaration of marriage null and void


1. Art 35: Essential and formal requisites (Below 18; Authorization of
Solemnizing Officer; No marriage license; Bigamous; Mistake in Identity;
Failure to register partition and distribution)
2. Art. 36: Psychological Incapacity
3. Art. 37: Incestuous (between brothers and sisters; between ascendants and
descendants)
4. Art. 38: Public Policy (Adopting parents, adopted children and their
spouses; Killed own spouse or other person’s spouse; Step parents and
step children)
5. Art. 41 when both parties acted in BF

 Annullment of marriage
1. 18-21 no parental consent
2. Insanity
3. Force, intimidation or undue influence
4. Concealment of: (1) Crime involving moral turpitude; (2) STD; (3)
Habitual alcoholism; (4) Drug addiction; (5) Homosexuality; or (6)
Pregnant by another man
5. Inability to consummate marriage
6. Serious and incurable STD

 Legal separation
1. Repeated physical violence to spouse or any of his or her children
2. Physical abuse or moral influence to compel to change religious or political
affiliations
3. Attempt or connive to induce or corrupt to engage in prostitution
4. Final judgment of imprisonment of more than 6 years
5. Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism
6. Lesbianism or homosexuality
7. Contracting a bigamouse marriage
8. Sexual infidelity or perversion
9. Attempt against the life
10. Abandonment without justifiable cause for more than 1 year

 Judicial separation of property


1. Voluntary agreement between the spouses
2. Sentenced to a penalty which carries with it civil interdiction
3. Judicially declared absentee
4. Loss of parental authority
5. Abandoned spouse
6. Spouse granted administration powers in the marriage settlement abused
such power
7. Separated in fact for at least 1 year and reconciliation is improbable

 Administration of exclusive property of the other spouse


1. Becomes the guardian of the other spouse
2. Judicially declared absentee
3. Sentenced to a penalty which carries with it civil interdiction
4. Fugitive

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