A triage guide for individuals: identify your everyday civil dispute, then follow the legal order — proof, written demand, barangay conciliation, small claims or a civil case — before the prescriptive period runs out.
Check an unpaid debt in the Philippines: organize evidence, reconcile payments, estimate interest, and understand demand, settlement and court options.
The most common neighbor disputes in the Philippines — encroachment, nuisance, trees, drainage, windows, walls, construction damage and animals — each have a Civil Code rule. Here is which one applies and where to go first.
A step-by-step process for handling civil disputes in Philippine business transactions — from reading the dispute clause and computing deadlines to choosing between barangay conciliation, arbitration, small claims and the regular courts.
Generally, no. While a lease is running, the tenant is the lawful possessor of the unit, and the landlord must “maintain the lessee in the peaceful and adequate enjoyment of the lease for the entire duration of the contract” (Civil Code, Art. 1654(3)). A landlord may enter with the tenant’s consent, as the lease allows,…
If the easement legally exists, no. The owner of the servient land keeps the soil but may not impair the use of the passage, and the remedy is an action to enforce the easement with an injunction. The first question is always whether the easement exists at all.
The right remedy depends on two facts: how the occupation started, and how long ago. Within one year it is a summary ejectment case; beyond that it becomes a plenary action. Here is how to tell which one you have, and what to do first.
If your lot is surrounded by other properties with no adequate outlet to a public road, the Civil Code lets you demand a right of way through a neighboring estate after paying proper indemnity. Here are the four requisites, how the route is chosen, and what it costs.
A boundary is fixed by the technical description in the title as plotted on the ground by a licensed geodetic engineer – not by the fence, the tax declaration, or how long it has stood there. Here is the order of steps, the evidence that decides it, and the remedy that fits.