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Mommy D's photo taken from http://entertainment.inquirer.net/148564/is-mommy-dionisia-pacquiao-living-in-marrying-lover Mommy Dionisia Pacquiao or Mommy D is now in the spotlight again.  It is not because she was one of the ten personalities who were voted as the best dressed in the 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III but it is because of the rumor that she plans to marry her 40-year old boyfriend. Recently, it was no less than the world boxing icon Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao who divulged such information that Mommy D is now on the marrying stage again. The question now is would Mommy D have no legal impediment to marry her boyfriend. Accordingly, Mommy D is previously married to another man.  And this man is not even Manny's father.  As a matter of fact, Mommy D and Manny's father were just common-law spouses or commonly known as live-in partners because of Mommy D's previous marriage. ...

If the spouses are not married to each other, how would be their property governed? When a man and woman, who are capacitated to marry each other, live exclusively with each other as husband and wife WITHOUT the benefit of marriage or under a VOID MARRIAGE, their wages and salaries shall be owned by them in EQUAL SHARES and the property acquired by both of them through their work or industry shall be governed by the RULES ON CO-OWNERSHIP. What is the presumption of the properties acquired while the common law spouses lived together? The properties acquired while the common law spouses lived together shall be presumed to have been obtained by their joint efforts, work or industry, and shall be owned by them in EQUAL shares. Can a party encumber or dispose his/her share in the property without the consent of the other? Neither party can encumber or dispose his/her share in the property acquired during the cohabitation and owned in common without the consent of...