RECOGNIZING instances when a marriage become inadvertently unworkable, the proposal for the dissolution of marriage bill will give people a chance to remarry and hopefully enter to a better and solid relationship in the future.
This is the view of Senator Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel which she disclosed on proposing her newly-filed dissolution of marriage bill that aims to give people in problematic marriages another chance at love and building a family.
Hontiveros enthused: “If a marriage is destroyed, this dissolution of marriage bill will give people a chance to remarry and estbalish a family, and doesn’t everyone deserve that second chance . . . to start anew, to love, to marry again, to build a new family. To be happy.”
The lady legislator had previously said that her proposed divorce bill aims to provide a divorcee a clean start, and remarry without any legal hitches.
She had filed the ‘no-fault’ divorce bill amid church objection:
“This dissolution of marriage bill is an urgent reform measure for Filipinos trapped in damaged and abusive relationships. So many of our countrymen . . . cannot leave abusive relationships that are hurting them already.”
Hontiveros, now the lone opposition member of the Senate after she won in this year’s general elections, also said she is willing to cross party lines towards the passage of a divorce bill in the country.
Neophyte senators Robin Padilla and Raffy Tulfo have also filed their own versions of the divorce bill.
‘Everybody deserves a second chance’, according to Padilla, who recently requested to be addressed by his colleagues as Senator ‘Robinhood’, who defends his push for a divorce law.
In reaction, Hontiveros opined that the divorce bills that have been filed have more similarities than differences: “Rest assured that, as in the past 6 years, I will work with any senator with whom I share an advocacy so we can pass important bills.”
