Inconclusive proof

By Jose C. Sison | January 29, 2014 - 12:00am

Is the baptismal certificate a conclusive proof of parentage, or more specifically, of daughter-mother relationship? This is the issue raised in this case involving a parcel of land with an area of 1,638 sq. me...

Sabah claim alive? Its bones are in Noy closet

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | October 22, 2013 - 12:00am

SKELETONS: Behind the brave front of the Kiram family that the Philippine claim to Sabah is alive despite the death last Sunday of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III is the sad reality that the generations-old claim is...

Collation

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | September 11, 2013 - 12:00am

Collation is the return of the donations made by the deceased to his hereditary estate either by adding mathematically the value of said donation or by actually bringing them back to the estate.

BIR to focus on estate tax, eyes P50B by 2016

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | September 2, 2013 - 12:00am

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) reminded those who have been planning out their wealth for future distribution to their spouse or children to make sure that their heirs pay the estate tax or face tax evasion...

Sultan harassed both in Sabah and Manila

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | March 5, 2013 - 12:00am

OWNER’S FATE: What the ailing Sulu sultan Jamalul Kiram III and his followers want is a president who has it in his heart to embrace them as their protector, not one who publicly castigates them and leaves...

If Malaysia offers to raise Sabah rent?

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | February 24, 2013 - 12:00am

MONEY MATTER: Is the Philippine claim on Sabah destined for another “pera-pera lang” resolution — in the same tenor that Comelec chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. says that the quarrel of election hardware...

Unauthorized but binding

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | December 19, 2012 - 12:00am

Can a Deed of Extrajudicial Partition signed by one co-heir only be binding on the other co-heirs even those who did not give a special power of attorney authorizing him to do so?

CA urged: Lift public auction ban

By Mylen P. Manto | July 13, 2012 - 12:00am

The heirs of the late Rev. Fr. Vicente Rallos have asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its injunction order against the holding of a public auction of the city government’s property and garnishment of...

Learning to trust God

By Dr. Harold J. Sala | May 13, 2012 - 12:00am

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12

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Contradictory positions

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | November 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Lessees who build a house and other improvements on the land they are leasing cannot be considered a builder in good faith because they know and acknowledge that they are not the owners of the land.