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Annulment and legal separation do not grant complete relief to spouses in totally dysfunctional or abusive relations because annulment only covers causes “existing at the time of the marriage” and does not encompass those occurring during the marriage and legal separation does not allow covered spouses to remarry, unlike absolute divorce.

Absolute divorce provides a decent and merciful interment for an irremediably dead marriage even as the State protects and preserves vibrant and happy marital relationships.

Only spouses in totally broken marriages and those void from the start are entitled to a grant of absolute divorce.

In absolute divorce proceedings, there is no more marriage to protect or destroy because it has disintegrated much earlier.

The absolute divorce bill does not allow “drive thru”, “no-contest” or “quickie” divorces.

The bill unequivocally provides that “no decree of absolute divorce shall be based on a stipulation of facts or confession of judgment”, which is a prohibition on a no-contest divorce.

Coerced petitions and convenient collusions are also prohibited.

The denial of due process and the incarceration for partisan and vindictive motives of a citizen, like Sen. Leila de Lima, demean the Constitution and diminish the Nation.

The longer the deprivation of freedom lasts, like one long solitary and degrading year, the more the infringement of the Constitution worsens, and the more the affront to the Nation aggravates.