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The country will be “on the verge of joining the universality of absolute divorce in the community of nations,” a politician said on Tuesday, following the committee’s acceptance of the measure reinstituting absolute divorce for plenary deliberations.

The House Committee on Population and Family Relations approved the divorce bill, according to Albay Representative Edcel Lagman, giving spouses—especially wives—the opportunity to end a “irremediably broken marriage” and start fresh.

“While it is true that marriages are celebrated in paradise, some unions actually end in divorce due of flaws and defects in people. The Divorce Act aims to save married people from hellish suffering, especially mistreated or abandoned wives, according to Lagman.

The new rule, he said, would apply to unusual situations involving married people who are “marooned in toxic, dysfunctional and even abusive marriages, particularly for wives who suffer the torment of irreversibly dead marriages.”

The worst thing that can happen to a family is not divorce. These are considerably worse than divorce, he said: “Suffering years of physical assault, experiencing emotional abuse, enduring adultery, enabling children to live in a toxic home, and witnessing daily strife and persistent disagreement.

The measure stipulates that a divorce petition must go through a legal process in which it must be proven that the marriage has irretrievably broken down and there is no chance of reconciliation.

It further said that quickie, notarial, email, and other quick drive-thru divorces were not permitted.

After the divorce petition is filed, there is a cooling-off period of 60 days during which the judge must make sincere attempts to bring the parties together again.

In order to ensure that there is no cooperation between the parties or whether one party forced the other to file the divorce petition, the public prosecutor is required to undertake an investigation.

The petition is dismissed at any point throughout the proceedings if the parties agree to make amends. The proposed law states that if the parties decide to reunite even after an absolute divorce decision has been issued, the divorce decree shall be void.

The measure calls for severe sanctions for anyone who conspires to obtain a divorce decree or who forces another spouse to seek for divorce. The penalties include a five-year prison sentence that cannot be divided and a large fine.

“Divorce is a possibility. Under the Family Code, an aggrieved party may seek an annulment of marriage, legal separation, or dissolution of marriage based on psychological incapacity. However, these actions are costly and time-consuming, as opposed to divorce, which is required to be quick, reasonable, and affordable, according to Lagman.

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