VIII.

Brief of Law

A. Laws

1) Republic Act No. 9262 “Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of
2004”

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SECTION 5. Acts of Violence Against Women and Their Children - The crime of violence
against women and their children is committed through any of the following acts:

(a) Causing physical harm to the woman or her child;

(b) Threatening to cause the woman or her child physical harm;

(c) Attempting to cause the woman or her child physical harm;

(d) Placing the woman or her child in fear of imminent physical harm;

(e) Attempting to compel or compelling the woman or her child to engage in

conduct which the woman or her child has the right to desist from or desist from
conduct which the woman or her child has the right to engage in, or attempting to
restrict or restricting the woman's or her child's freedom of movement or conduct
by force or threat of force, physical or other harm or threat of physical or other
harm, or intimidation directed against the woman or child. This shall include, but
not limited to, the following acts committed with the purpose or effect of controlling
or restricting the woman's or her child's movement or conduct:

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(2) Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her children of financial

support legally due her or her family, or deliberately providing the woman's
children insufficient financial support;

(3) Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her child of a legal

right;

(4) Preventing the woman in engaging in any legitimate profession,

occupation, business or activity or controlling the victim's own mon4ey or
properties, or solely controlling the conjugal or common money, or
properties;

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 (h) Engaging in purposeful, knowing, or reckless conduct, personally or through
another, that alarms or causes substantial emotional or psychological distress to
the woman or her child. This shall include, but not be limited to, the following acts:

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(5) Engaging in any form of harassment or violence;

(i) Causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or humiliation to the woman
or her child, including, but not limited to, repeated verbal and emotional abuse, and
denial of financial support or custody of minor children of access to the woman's
child/children.
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2) Executive Order No. 209, s. 1987, “Family Code of the Philippines”

Art. 70. The spouses are jointly responsible for the support of the family. The expenses
for such support and other conjugal obligations shall be paid from the community property
and, in the absence thereof, from the income or fruits of their separate properties. In case
of insufficiency or absence of said income or fruits, such obligations shall be satisfied from
the separate properties.

Art. 96. The administration and enjoyment of the community property shall belong to both
spouses jointly. In case of disagreement, the husband's decision shall prevail, subject to
recourse to the court by the wife for proper remedy, which must be availed of within five
years from the date of the contract implementing such decision...xxx

Art. 124. The administration and enjoyment of the conjugal partnership shall belong to
both spouses jointly. In case of disagreement, the husband's decision shall prevail,
subject to recourse to the court by the wife for proper remedy, which must be availed of
within five years from the date of the contract implementing such decision…xxx.”

Art. 211. The father and the mother shall jointly exercise parental authority over the
persons of their common children. In case of disagreement, the father's decision shall
prevail, unless there is a judicial order to the contrary...xxx

Art. 225. The father and the mother shall jointly exercise legal guardianship over the
property of the unemancipated common child without the necessity of a court
appointment. In case of disagreement, the father's decision shall prevail, unless there is
a judicial order to the contrary...xxx

3) A.M. No. 01-7-01-SC Rules on Electronic Evidence

Section 2. Admissibility. – An electronic document is admissible in evidence if it

complies with the rules on admissibility prescribed by the Rules of Court and related laws
and is authenticated in the manner prescribed by these Rules.

Section 3. Privileged communication. – The confidential character of a privileged

communication is not lost solely on the ground that it is in the form of an electronic
document.

B. Jurisprudence

1) VAWC
a. CELSO M.F.L. MELGAR, v. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, G.R. No.
223477, February 14, 2018
b. RICKY DINAMLING vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, G.R. No. 199522,
June 22, 2015
c. Jesus C. Garcia v. Hon. Drilon, G.R. No. 179267, June 25, 2013

2) Family Code of the Philippines

a. GONZALO GARCIA vs. CONSOLACION MANZANO, G.R. No. L-8190
May 28, 1958 (Conjugal Partnership Property)
b. BONIFACIA P. VANCIL vs. HELEN G. BELMES, G.R. No. 132223
June 19, 2001 (Guardianship)
c. RENALYN A. MASBATE AND SPOUSES RENATO MASBATE AND
MARLYN MASBATE v. RICKY JAMES RELUCIO, G.R. No. 235498, July
30, 2018 (Parental Authority)

3) Rules on Electronic Evidence

a. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. NOEL ENOJAS y HINGPIT, ARNOLD
GOMEZ y FABREGAS, FERNANDO SANTOS y DELANTAR, and ROGER
JALANDONI y ARI, G.R. No. 204894, March 10, 2014