CivilLaw.PH publishes the rules it works by. This page collects every editorial, sourcing, review and legal policy that governs the site, so a reader can check how a guide was researched, how it is kept current, and what the site does and does not promise.
We take the view that legal information is only as trustworthy as the method behind it. Everything below is written plainly and is open to challenge – if a policy is not being followed on a particular page, that is a correction we want to receive.
The principles behind all of them
- Primary sources first. A legal statement should rest on the Civil Code, a statute, a procedural rule, an official issuance or a published decision – not on somebody else’s article about one.
- The law is separated from our explanation of it. Where we are interpreting, summarising or simplifying, the page says so.
- Nothing is quoted that we have not read. Where the exact wording of a provision could not be verified against an authoritative text, it is paraphrased and cited by article number rather than presented as a quotation.
- Dates, periods and thresholds get extra scrutiny. These are the figures a reader is most likely to act on and most likely to be harmed by if they are wrong.
- This is information, not advice. The site does not know your documents, your dates or your facts, and it cannot replace a lawyer who does.
Reporting a correction
If a page on this site misstates the law, cites a repealed or superseded provision, or has been overtaken by an amendment or a newer decision, we want to know. A useful report names the page address, the statement you are questioning, and the official source you are relying on – a codal article, a Republic Act, a rule, an issuance or a reported case. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself and the review date is updated.
Last materially reviewed: 11 September 2026.