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Legitimate Children Now Entitled to Use their Mother’s Surname as their Own
The Supreme Court in its recent decision in the case of Alanis vs Court of Appeals [GR 2146425; November 11, 2020] clarified that legitimate children can now opt to use the surname of their mothers.
Resigned Employee is Considered Constructively Dismissed if an Employer Failed to Act Promptly and Sensitively on Her Sexual Harassment Complaint
This is the recent ruling of the Supreme Court in a labor case entitled, “LBC Express-Vis Inc. vs. Monica Palco”, G.R. No. 217101, February 12, 2020.
Regular PCAB License May Now Be Granted To Foreign Contractors
In the March 10, 2020 Decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB) vs. Manila Water Company, Inc. (Manila Water), G.R. No. 217590, it finally put to rest the issue of whether or not foreign contractors are eligible only to special PCAB license as provided under Rule 3 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 4566 (RA 4566).
FOREX trading in the Philippines: Is it legal?
Globalization has great impact in the community, locally and internationally. Due to its rapid increase worldwide, it paved way for the innovation of the market system. Among those is the introduction of Foreign Exchange (Forex) in the international market arena. Forex, also known as FX, is a generic term for the worldwide institutions that exists to exchange or trade currencies.
Philippines’ Revised Corporation Code
Check out FOA Law Office in Davao City about the list of Revised Corporation Code. We listed below the five important changes brought about by RA 11232 that would somehow ease doing business and to cut red tape practices in the Philippines: