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Article 240

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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The family home may be extrajudicially constituted by recording in the Registry of Property a public instrument wherein a person declares that he thereby establishes a family home out of a dwelling place with the land...

Official text — RA 386

The family home may be extrajudicially constituted by recording in the Registry of Property a public instrument wherein a person declares that he thereby establishes a family home out of a dwelling place with the land on which it is situated.

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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