The Marriage License
One of
the most important documents of marriage is the marriage license. This license is issued by the local registrar
of of the city or municipality where either contracting party habitually
resides, except in marriages where no license is required such as those covered
by Chapter 2, Title 1:
a) In
case either or both parties are at the point if death; (Article 27).
b) If
the residence of either party is so located that there is no means of
transportation to enable such party to appear personally before the local civil
registrar (Article 28).
c)
Execution by the solemnizing officer of an affidavit before the local civil
registrar that the marriage was performed in articulo mortis or the residence of the contracting parties is so
located that there is no means of transportation (Article 29).
d) The
original of the affidavit together with the legible copy of the marriage contract,
shall be sent by the person solemnizing the marriage of the local civil
registrar of the municipality where it was performed within the period of
thirty days after performance of the marriage.
Marriage License Requirements
In
obtaining a marriage license, each of the contracting parties shall file
separately a sworn application for such license with the following information.
a) Full
name of the contracting parties
b)
Place of birth
c) Age
and date of birth
d)
Civil status
e) If
previously married, how, when and where the previous marriage was dissolved or
annulled;
f)
Present residence and citizenship
g)
Degree of relationship of the contracting parties
h) Full
name, residence and citizenship of the father
g) Full
name, residence and citizenship of the mother
Other
requirements of the local registrar are the original birth certificates; or in
default thereof, the baptismal certificates.
If either parties is unable to produce these certificates, an affidavit
will be executed by the contracting parties before a public official authorized
to administer oaths where two witnesses will make sworn declaration regarding
their birth or a copy of the current residence certificate.
The
presentation of the birth or baptismal certificate shall not be required if the
parents of the contracting parties appear personally before the local civil
registrar concerned and swear to the correctness of the lawful age of said
parties, as stated in the application or when the local civil registrar shall,
by merely looking at the applicants upon their personal appearance before him,
be convinced that either or both of them have the required age.
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