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NULLITY OF MARRIAGE: Lack of Marriage License Due To False Affidavit of Cohabitation

Interfering In-Laws Caused the Marriage Breakdown @Alain Atienza Tagpuno This petition involves a Declaration of Nullity of Marriage between Petitioner J and Respondent L on the ground t hat the marriage was solemnized without a marriage license, anchored on the falsity of the period of five (5) consecutive years of cohabitation stated in the Affidavit of cohabitation. FACTUAL SCENARIO: J, is a cameraman for TV shows that air over PTV 4, while L was working as the head writer for the same TV shows.  D uring their initial meeting, J found L to be friendly, kind and intelligent, being a graduate of Mass Communications from the Ateneo de Manila University. As J  and L  always worked together on the same production, their mutual attraction for each other grew. With constant teasing from M, their Production Manager, and co-workers, J   and L became sweethearts sometime in the latter part of 2001. Sometime in April 2003, while J ,   L and M