CivilLaw.PH uses a structured review process to improve the accuracy, clarity and reliability of its legal content. The level of review varies with the complexity, risk and purpose of the material.
Pre-publication review
Before a guide is published it is checked for legal basis, source quality, citation accuracy, internal consistency, readability and alignment with the scope the page claims for itself. Codal provisions, case holdings, procedural steps, prescriptive periods and jurisdictional thresholds receive particular attention.
Two checks are run on every guide before release. First, that each material legal proposition can be traced to a named authority we have actually read. Second, that nothing appears inside quotation marks unless it was verified verbatim from a permitted source.
Risk-based review
Some pages carry more consequence than others. Guides involving deadlines, ejectment, the loss of a property right, the validity of a sale, the division of an estate, the choice of court or a filing threshold are reviewed more closely than general definitions or background explanation.
The one-year period in ejectment, the thirty-day period for legal redemption, the ten and thirty-year prescriptive periods, the twenty-year possession requirement for confirmation of an imperfect title and the assessed-value thresholds that decide which court hears a case are treated as high-risk statements and are checked against the issuing source each time a page is revised.
Reviewer roles
A reviewer may verify sources, challenge an unsupported conclusion, identify a missing exception, and check whether the guide keeps binding law separate from editorial explanation. Reviewer attribution is used only where the person’s identity, role and contribution are accurate and authorised. A page does not display legal-review credit unless a named Philippine lawyer has actually reviewed that page.
Ongoing review
Published material is revisited after amendments to the Civil Code or a special statute, changes to the Rules of Court, significant Supreme Court decisions, changes in registry or agency procedure, reader reports, or a scheduled editorial check. Priority goes to pages that receive significant traffic or that could affect an important decision about property, money or an estate.
Where a subject can change, the guide carries a visible Last materially reviewed date. That date reflects when the legal substance was actually rechecked – not when the page was last touched for a typographical or formatting change.
Review limitations
Editorial review reduces error. It does not guarantee that a page is complete, current or suitable for a particular set of facts. Readers should consult the full official sources and obtain professional advice where the stakes warrant it.
Documentation
Where practical we record the principal sources used, the publication date, the review date and any significant correction. That record is what makes the library maintainable: when a provision is amended or a doctrine moves, it should be possible to find every page that relied on the old position.
This policy should be read with our Editorial Policy and Research Methodology and our Source and Citation Policy.
Last materially reviewed: 11 September 2026.