Marriage

[wayne208]

Mystic .. You posted a very good one funny Yet True .

[jadegil6]

There is a new law pending in Congress in the Philippines. It was introduced by Gwendolyn Garcia, former Governor of Cebu who was kicked out of office there.
It says that a foreign man must prove financial ability to support a Filipina in order to marry her.

News Article: For non-Filipino men, marrying a Filipina may be about to get tougher.
If you're a foreigner planning on tying the knot with a Filipina sweetheart, you will soon need to prove your capacity to support your bride - if Philippine Congress gets its way.
A new legislation passed on second reading in the House of Representatives on Wednesday mandating additional requirements for male foreigners to want to marry Filipinas.
“The bill shall protect Filipino women against exploitation of foreigners who marry without evident means to support a family,” Pangasinan Rep. Marlyn Primicias-Agabas, who chairs the committee, was quoted in a Philippine Star report. The House Committee on Revision of Laws pushed for House Bill 4828, which substituted House Bill 2387 authored by Cebu Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia.
Garcia earlier said some of the foreigners landing in the Philippines to marry Filipino women turn out to be vagabonds or social and moral derelicts in their own country.
“(For some) the real motive for marriage is only to take advantage and exploit our women by making them work for the family and worse, by sending them to prostitution and other degrading and dehumanizing occupations,” she said.
“The exploitation of our Filipino women, through the so-called mail-order or pen-pal, Facebook and other internet-made marriages, has not only caused untold misery and suffering to our Filipino women but it has also brought dishonor and disgrace to the Filipino womanhood,” Garcia added.
Under the measure, the prospective foreign husband will be required to produce a certificate of good moral character and a certificate that he has a gainful trade, business, employment or other lawful source of income to be issued by his country’s diplomatic or consular official, in addition to the usual certificate of legal capacity.
The measure amends Article 21 of Executive Order 209, otherwise known as the Family Code.
Philippine Congress is comprised of the 24-member upper house (Senate) and the 292-member lower house (House of Representatives)
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The US has had a law in effect for a very long time that a man must prove financial ability to support a wife in order to bring her to the US. presently, that law states he must earn 125% of the poverty line. That would be a little less than $20,000 per year for a man and wife. He has to show proof of those earnings for a consecutive 3 year time period. I don't think there is anything wrong with the proposed bill, but maybe it should include Filipino men as well.

[cheryz]

There is a new law pending in Congress in the Philippines. It was introduced by Gwendolyn Garcia, former Governor of Cebu who was kicked out of office there.
It says that a foreign man must prove financial ability to support a Filipina in order to marry her.

News Article: For non-Filipino men, marrying a Filipina may be about to get tougher.
If you're a foreigner planning on tying the knot with a Filipina sweetheart, you will soon need to prove your capacity to support your bride - if Philippine Congress gets its way.
A new legislation passed on second reading in the House of Representatives on Wednesday mandating additional requirements for male foreigners to want to marry Filipinas.
“The bill shall protect Filipino women against exploitation of foreigners who marry without evident means to support a family,” Pangasinan Rep. Marlyn Primicias-Agabas, who chairs the committee, was quoted in a Philippine Star report. The House Committee on Revision of Laws pushed for House Bill 4828, which substituted House Bill 2387 authored by Cebu Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia.
Garcia earlier said some of the foreigners landing in the Philippines to marry Filipino women turn out to be vagabonds or social and moral derelicts in their own country.
“(For some) the real motive for marriage is only to take advantage and exploit our women by making them work for the family and worse, by sending them to prostitution and other degrading and dehumanizing occupations,” she said.
“The exploitation of our Filipino women, through the so-called mail-order or pen-pal, Facebook and other internet-made marriages, has not only caused untold misery and suffering to our Filipino women but it has also brought dishonor and disgrace to the Filipino womanhood,” Garcia added.
Under the measure, the prospective foreign husband will be required to produce a certificate of good moral character and a certificate that he has a gainful trade, business, employment or other lawful source of income to be issued by his country’s diplomatic or consular official, in addition to the usual certificate of legal capacity.
The measure amends Article 21 of Executive Order 209, otherwise known as the Family Code.
Philippine Congress is comprised of the 24-member upper house (Senate) and the 292-member lower house (House of Representatives)
*******************************************************
The US has had a law in effect for a very long time that a man must prove financial ability to support a wife in order to bring her to the US. presently, that law states he must earn 125% of the poverty line. That would be a little less than $20,000 per year for a man and wife. He has to show proof of those earnings for a consecutive 3 year time period. I don't think there is anything wrong with the proposed bill, but maybe it should include Filipino men as well.

yes i agree with you sir michael.

[crisipicada]

I accidentally read this and wanted to share here about marriage.

" Marriage"
Unless marriage is built upon the rock of oneness it
cannot stand; "Two Souls with but a single thought, two
hearts that beat as one."
The poet understood this, for unless man and wife are
living the same thoughts (or living in the same thought
world), they must inevitably drift apart.
Thought is a tremendous vibratory force and man is
drawn to his thought creations.
For example: A man and woman married and were
apparently happy. The man became successful and his
tastes improved, but the wife still lived in a limited
consciousness. Whenever the man bought anything he
went to the best shops and selected what he needed
regardless of price.
Whenever the wife went out she haunted the Five and
Ten Cent Stores. He was living (in thought), on Fifth
Avenue and her thought world was on Third Avenue.
Eventually the break and separation came.
We see this so often in the cases of rich and successful
men who desert their faithful, hardworking wives later in
life.
The wife must keep pace with her husband's taste and
ambitions and live in his thought world, for where a man
thinketh in his heart there is he.
There is for each person his "other half" or divine
selection.
These two are one in their thought worlds.
These are the two "whom God has joined together and
no man shall (or can) part asunder."
"The twain shall be made one," for in the superconscious
mind of each is the same Divine Plan.

AFFIRMATION
I give thanks that the marriage made in heaven is now
made manifest upon earth. "The twain shall be made
one" now and for all eternity.