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[A.M. No. 08-7-429-RTC : August 12, 2008] RE: QUERIES AND COMMENTS OF JUDGES ON ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 125-2007 GUIDELINES ON THE SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY :
[A.M. No. 08-7-429-RTC : August 12, 2008]
RE: QUERIES AND COMMENTS OF JUDGES ON ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 125-2007 GUIDELINES ON THE SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY
Sirs/Mesdames:
Quoted hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of the Court En Banc dated August 12, 2008
�A.M. No. 08-7-429-RTC.- Re: Queries and Comments of Judges on Administrative Order No. 125-2007 [Guidelines on the Solemnization of Marriage by the Members of the Judiciary.- The Court Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Office of the Court Administrator, to
�A.M. No. 08-7-429-RTC.- Re: Queries and Comments of Judges on Administrative Order No. 125-2007 [Guidelines on the Solemnization of Marriage by the Members of the Judiciary.- The Court Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Office of the Court Administrator, to
(a) NOTE the letters of Executive Judge Reynaldo G. Ros, RTC, Manila and Judge Norma Ruste-Calatarava, MTCC, Digos City, on their queries in Administrative Order No. 125-2007 (Guidelines on the Solemnization of Marriage by the Members of the Judiciary) dated August 9, 2007, specifically Section 2(Raffle of requests for solemnization of marriage in multiple-sala courts);
(b) NOTE the letter-comment of Judge Maybelle L. Demot Mari�as, RTC, Branch 8, La Trinidad, Benguet in the abovementioned Order;
(c) DIRECT the judges of multiple sala courts to strictly observe the raffling of request for solemnization of marriage because of the numerous anomalies discovered in the solemnization of marriages during various judicial audits in the lower courts. Unless for valid reasons, the refusal of a judge to participate in the raffle of requests for solemnization of marriage shall be constructed as shrinking from judicial duty;
(d) DISALLOW special raffle in the solemnization of marriage except in very remote cases i.e. the judge to whom the request was raffled cannot perform the marriage due to any fortuitous event or unavoidable circumstances. Likewise, assigning individual requests to a certain judge is disallowed so as not to defeat the purpose of the issuance of the abovementioned Order; and
(e) REQUIRE all request for solemnization of marriage in instances where the offices of the first and second level courts (multiple sala or not) are located in the same Hall of Justice, to be filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court of Regional Trial Court of the said area. The requests would then be raffled and equally distributed among the first and second level court judges thereat.�(adv69)
Very truly yours, (Sgd.) MA. LUISA D. VILLARAMA Clerk of Court