I have an incoming child. I’m not married with my child’s father, but we are in good terms.

Currently, I’m living with my parents because I still have to finish my studies and get myself stable. Now, I’m battling with my parents over to whom shall my child be named after— my surname or his father’s. They want to name my child after me, after all we’re not married. (They don’t want the father for me, and they are claiming that the father has no right over me or his child because we are NOT MARRIED, that I should provide protection for myself and my child, so they are insisting to name my child after my surname.)

I know of R.A. 9255, but non of my parents, siblings, and relatives are aware of that.

My questions are:
1. How can I explain to them that I can name my child after his father?

2. What does “Even if the child is named after the father, given the father and mother are not married, the child is still illegitimate?”

3. Do I still need to get written permissions from the father as to getting my child out of the country? Does he has rights to impede my travels with my baby?

3.1. Do I and the father have equal rights over our illegitimate child given the child carries his father’s surname?

4. For the sake of argument:
Just in case, if in time, I wouldn’t be in good terms with the father? What protections do I have over my child (rights, custody) provided the father acknowledged or child in the Certificate of Live Birth, that the child is named after him?

5. If my illegitimate child carries my name, can I put the father’s name in the birth certificate?

6. Does the signature of the father affixed at the back of the child’s birth certificate means that the child shall mandatorily carry his father’s surname?

Hoping for your kind and quick response. I’m in dire need of answers, I can’t go out of the house and ask for any other legal guidance because we are hiding my pregnancy.

Thank you so much!

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I just wanted to get an assistance and advice with regards to my plight. I am currently out of the country and working in Dubai, UAE as my husband is not capable to support me and our 2 daughters. I am married to an Egyptian who is now currently staying in the Philippines. Due to the recession, he lost his job and went back to his country as the police is running after him due to his debt with some banks. After almost 6 months in Egypt, he applied for a visa to go to the Philippines to be with my children. However, some of the documents he used to acquire a visa in the Philippine Consulate in Egypt are falsified. Like employment letter (whom he acquired in a company he is not really working with and only know a relative who works there) among others.

As he is now in the Philippines for two years now he is just renewing his visa, the problem is he is not staying with our children nor supporting them but is currently living with another woman. I am working away from my children and my so called husband is living his life with another woman who doesn’t even care to visit his children.

In this regard, I wanted to know how I can lodge a complain to the immigration regarding this matter. Are the above information’s subject for his deportation?

I would highly appreciate if you could advise me on this matter and the course of action I need to do. Thank you very much.

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tanung ko lang po kung may laban po kami at ng asawa ko sa dati nyang mistress na nag file na kaso sa knya ngyn ng RA 9262??? wala po kasi kaming alam na atty na pwedeng pagtanungan ng problema namen. matagal napo silang wala ng asawa ko pero last week po sumugod sya sa opis nya at nagwala na lang basta at nagkaroon ng away between them kasi po buntis pala ung mistress nya ngyn, ndi nman po nya tinamaan ung mistress nya pero ang sumbong sa mga pulis tinamaan daw po sya at ung tyan nya. anu po ba gagawin nmen at kanino po lami lalapit? pra masolusyonan tong problema ng asawa ko. salamat po.

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I am a battered wife and plan to move out of the house. I am now 3 months pregnant and have an 8 year old kid. Despite of it, my husband would still beat me up dahil nagger daw ako because I would always nag about his other women. Tinatago po nya ang pera nya sa akin and we agreed that in case we separate, he would give us 10,000 as support and another 10,000 which will be deposited in teh bank for our eldest’s college school fee.

Natatakot po akong hindi nya matupad mga sinasabi nya so I would like to seek counsel on what I should do to hold him legally binded to his words. Tsaka hindi naman po ako makapagfile ng violence against woman kasi wala po akong ebidensya that he had hurt me before but I believe our neighbors heard our constant fighting. Wala din po akong solid na ebidensya na nambababae sya even if ilang ulit ko na syang nahuli and even he confided it to me. Sir please, help me. Reasonable ho ba ang kanyang ibibigay sa akin kasi i know hindi ho yun enough kasi manganganak pa po ako. Plus I will rent a house and pay for the bills and needs of my children. Sabi nya may sweldo naman po ako. Thank you very much.

Yours,
Joy

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