Declaration of Nullity of Marriage on the Ground of Psychological Incapacity
(Article 36, Family Code of the Philippines)

Love quotes from the Supreme Court Decision in Andal vs. Andal penned by Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen.

Rosanna L. Tan-Andal vs. Mario Victor M. Andal
G.R. No. 196359. May 11, 2021

"Love is founded on a promise: to seek beyond ourselves in order to enable and ennoble the other to continue to become the best version of themselves. Being in love can be carried on the wings of poetry, announced publicly through each other's gazes. It is made real and felt with every act of unconditional care and comfort that the lover provides. Love can be beyond labels.

Marriage is not compulsory when in love; neither does it create love. Nonetheless, it remains an institution designed to provide legal and public recognition that may be well deserved not only for the couple, but also for their families existing or yet to come.

To be clear, our collective hope is that one who chooses marriage realizes that the other deserves more caring, more compassion, more kindness in the daily and banal grind of their relationship. It is in these same values of sacrifice and empathy that we will have the chance to evolve into a society that is more humane and, eventually, more just.

Yet, we are not blind to the reality that a person may be truly psychologically incapable for the other from the beginning. Should there be grave need to part for the reasons we have stated, courts can lead the way to make parting less bitter, minimize animosity, and make lives more forward-/ looking for those most affected.

Parting is already a sorrow. It need not be more than what it already is."

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