Report: Article 29 of Family Code of the Philippines

Article 29. In the cases provided for in the two preceding articles, the solemnizing officer shall state in an affidavit executed before the local civil registrar or any other person legally authorized to administer oaths that the marriage was performed in articulo mortis or that the residence of either party, specifying the barrio or barangay, is so located that there is no means of transportation to enable such party to appear personally before the local civil registrar and that the officer took the necessary steps to ascertain the ages and relationship of the contracting parties and the absence of legal impediment to the marriage. (72a)

- Article 29 states that it is the duty of the solemnizing officer to determine that the contracting parties are of legal age and without legal impediment to the marriage also to execute before the local civil registrar the affidavit together with the legible copy of the marriage contract in the cases under article 27 where marriage was in “articulo mortis” that one or both of the parties are at point of death and article 28 where a contracting parties reside at a remote area and have no means of transportation to get to the civil registrar.