RULE 103 RULE 108 R.A.

9048
NATURE Judicial and adversarial Judicial and adversarial Administrative and summary

VENUE RTC of petitioner’s residence RTC where civil registry holding the documents sought to be ✗ Local civil registry where the record is kept;
corrected or cancelled is located ✗ Local civil registry where petitioner resides, IF it would be
costly and inconvenient for the petitioner to appear personally to
the local civil registry where the record is kept; and
✗ Philippine consulate, if the petitioner is abroad
WHO MAY FILE THE ONLY the petitioner/applicant himself ANY person interested, concerning the civil status of another ANY person having direct and personal interest
PETITION? sought to be changed

CONTENTS OF THE ✗ Signed and verified by the petitioner or some other ✗ Facts necessary to establish the merits of the petition and ✗ In the form of an affidavit;
PETITION person on his behalf; shall show affirmatively that the petitioner is competent to ✗ Subscribed and sworn to before any person authorized by
✗ That the petitioner has been a bona fide resident of testify to the matters stated; the law to administer oaths;
the province where the petition is filed for at least 3 ✗ Statement of the particular erroneous entry/entries which ✗ The facts necessary to establish the merits of the petition;
years prior to the date of such filing; are sought to be corrected and/or changed sought to be ✗ That the petitioner is competent to testify to the matters
✗ The ground/s for change of name; made. stated;
✗ The name asked for; ✗ The erroneous entry which are sought to be corrected;
✗ All names by which petitioner is known; ✗ ALL names by which petitioner is known.
✗ All aliases of the applicant must be set forth in the
petition’s title; otherwise, such defect would be fatal
even if said aliases are contained in the body of the
petition.
PUBLICATION Three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general ✗ Three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general ✗ Two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general
AND/OR POSTING circulation circulation circulation
✗ Individual and actual notice to interested parties ✗ Posting of the petition for ten (10) days in a conspicuous
place

N.B. It is the ORDER based on the petition that will be N.B. It is the ORDER based on the petition that will be published N.B. it is the PETITION itself that will be published
published
GROUNDS ✗ ridiculous or dishonorable Substantial changes ONLY ✗ clerical and typographical
✗ extremely difficult to write/pronounce ✗ birth ✗ ridiculous or dishonorable
✗ causes confusion ✗ marriage ✗ extremely difficult to write/pronounce
✗ change of name brought about by change in status ✗ deaths ✗ causes confusion
(i.e. legitimation) ✗ legal separation ✗ habitual use of the first/nickname AND is publicly known
✗ Continuously known by a Filipino name, the alien ✗ annulment by that name
unaware of her foreign parentage ✗ declaration of void ab initio marriage
✗ Alien wanting to adopt a Filipino name in good faith ✗ legitimation
and without prejudice to third parties ✗ adoption
✗ acknowledgments
✗ naturalization
✗ citizenship
✗ civil interdiction
✗ filiation
✗ voluntary emancipation of minor
✗ changes of name
MISCELLANEOUS ✗ FIRST NAME and SURNAME may be changed ✗ Due to its adversarial nature, strict compliance with the ✗ FIRST or NICKNAME are the only data that can be
NOTES ✗ Due to its adversarial nature, strict compliance with publication is required in order to vest jurisdiction with the court. changed
the publication is required in order to vest jurisdiction with the
court.

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