This is a question arise when I have a conversation with someone in facebook. So I prefer to publicly details about it. Under Art. 21. of the family code...state that when either or both of the contracting parties are citizens of a foreign country, it shall be necessary for them before a marriage license can be obtained, to submit a certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage, issued by their respective diplomatic or consular officials...
Stateless person or refugees from other countries shall in lieu of the certificate of legal capacity herein required, submit an affidavit stating the circumstances showing such capacity to contract marriage...
1. The capacity of a foreigner to get married in the Philippines is governed by his national law, a foreign law, so that our government offices and courts cannot take judicial notice of said law.
Hence, if he applies for a marriage license to be able to get married in the Philippines, he is required to present a certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage from the embassy or consular office of his country in the Philippines, since they are one know the national law of said foreign and whether he has capacity to marry under the law...
