UST Graduate School of Law alumnus Atty. Bryan Jay Corpuz J.D., LlM, DCL explored the provisions of the Family Code of the Philippines (Executive Order No. 209) and how it dealt with the “legitimate” and “illegitimate” filiation classifications in his paper entitled “A Critical Analysis of the Filiation Divide in the Family Code of the Philippines.”
Corpuz belongs to the Class of 2025 and currently serves as the Dean of Mariano Marcos State University College of Law.
Zeroing in via a descriptive-analytical methodology approach and a multi-layered analysis of the legal frames of the legal provisions, Corpuz concluded that the filiations were “inconsistent and repugnant with the equal protection clause of the 1987 Constitution”, citing that it was not compliant and congruent to Article 2 (Non-discrimination clause) and Article 3 (Best interest of the child clause) of the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child (UNCRC).
The paper was published in Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025 of International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research, an open access, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary bi-monthly scholarly international journal.
Read the full text here: https://www.ijfmr.com/research-paper.php?id=46253
