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Ma. Socorro Camacho-Reyes Vs. Ramon Reyes

MA. SOCORRO CAMACHO-REYES, Petitioner, versus RAMON REYES, Respondent

G.R. No. 185286 | 2010-08-18

DECISION


NACHURA, J.:

This case is, again, an instance of the all-too-familiar tale of a marriage in disarray.

In this regard, we air the caveat that courts should be extra careful before making a finding of psychological incapacity or vicariously diagnosing personality disorders in spouses where there are none. On the other hand, blind adherence by the courts to the exhortation in the Constitution[1] and in our statutes that marriage is an inviolable social institution, and validating a marriage that is null and void despite convincing proof of psychological incapacity, trenches on the very reason why a marriage that is doomed from...