Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby View Post
We didn't go down the annulment route, we opted for presumptive death instead because it's much faster and much cheaper than annulment. My wife's was all done and dusted in about 7 months and cost about £1200, plus 2 or 3 additional payments of about P5000 that her attorney dreamed up along the way.

Even when the whole legal process was complete, we still had to pay another bung, about P2,500, to get the clerk of the court to release the papers.

As far as kids are concerned, I don't think that they or their custody plays any part in a Philippines annulment.

Iain.
The first Attn. had £700 for filing the case arranging and paying for the psychology report and the newspaper adds for 3 weeks and 1 or 2 more appearances in court. We were then said to wait for another court date, which never happened. The second Attn. has manage to sort everything out, I must say quite quickly for £550, but still don’t actually have the papers. I’m sure like you there will be more charges before they are in our hands. Although the time scale has been longer than yours, part of this I believe is a 6-month cooling off period from filing the case to proceeding, which from my understanding is to give the couple time to change there mind. When I first started looking into this I was told about £ 1800 and if I was lucky about 9-12 months. It has taken 14 months for the decision, and we are now playing a waiting game for the papers until the 12 May.