A different view on Law on Persons: MARRIAGE

It is the year 2019.

The Weird Bunch is in a state of inactivity--for now.


Ashley is driving along MacArthur Highway when she passes by a courthouse...
Since her window is open (there will be no more pollution on Earth thanks to the Weird Bunch), and since she was stuck in traffic because her friend Alex's hospital was having a bad day, she heard the court granting a divorce to Allen and Maikee because Allen supposedly cheated on her multiple times, sometimes even right in front of her.
Intrigued but late for her meeting with friends, Ashley drove off to SM Clark to gossip about this new hot topic.
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At Gonuts Donuts,
"Ashley! Hi!" greeted Cha.
"Hi, have you heard about Allen?"
"Ohhhh YES, tara let's gossip about it..."'
So they sat down and ordered the disgustingly thick chocolate drink and gossiped about Allen.
In the middle of "I wonder what will happen to the kids", Alex arrived with a sad look on her face.
"What's wrong, Phid?" asked Cha.
"Eeeeeeee! My parents want me to marry Romell Yen--remember him?--but I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to!" she wailed.
"Awww... I'm sorry.. but you know," said Ashley. "You don't HAVE to. You have the right."
"I know that... but I just don't want to disappoint my parents."
"Awwww... its okay, Alex." comforted Cha while rubbing her back pervertedly.
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After watching 'Finding Dori', the 3 girls met up with Harvey in front of the lingerie department in the Dept Store.
"Hi, have you heard about Allen?" he gossiped.
"Yes!... psssh pssh psssst" and they all gossiped away...
Not so suddenly...
"Alex! Ashley! Harvey! Cha!" screamed Candice Pineda.
" 'bat moh ako yung last?" asked Cha.
"Did you hearing hearing about Allen and Maikee?" she asked.
"Yes, he cheated on--"
"No, not that! It's about the money!"
"The money?"
"Yes. As it turns out [nosebleed!], Maikee was behind it all! She wanted Allen's fortune all to herself so she hired a professional pole-dance to Photoshop pictures of her and Allen together!"
"Gasp!" they all gasped.
"Wait! Did they sign a... Prenuptial Agreement?"
"I am in a nosebleed, what is that?" asked Candice.
"A Prenuptial Agreement is a contract entered into prior to marriage or civil union by the people intending to marry. The content of a prenuptial agreement can vary widely, but commonly includes provisions for division of property and spousal support in the event of divorce or breakup of marriage."
"So that means...?"
"It means... if they signed a prenuptial agreement, then all Allen's fortune WILL NOT go to Maikee. She will leave their marriage with what she entered it with."
"Ohh..." said Harvey, Cha and Alex.
"I still don't understanding, but OK OK I will go na to da market and buy some pish por my lasagna.." said Candice.
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So the friends went to the Entertainment Center. Turns out, there was a couple getting married there.
They went downstairs and took a peek.
Aha! It was CJ and Lee!
"CJ! Lee! I can't believe you're getting married!" yelled Harvey.
"Ai! Hellooooo! Oo nga, ikakasal kami dito sa SMC! Ang sayasaya, diiiba? BONGGA!" said Lee.
"Oh my gosh!" said Cha. "You can't get married!"
"Why not?" asked CJ.
"Because your marriage does not have one ofthe essential requisites of marriage!" Cha explained and recited: "No marriage shall be valid, unless these essential requisites are present: (1) Legal capacity of the contracting parties who must be a male and a female... that's what you don't have!"
"Yeah! For one thing, Lee is a MORON, so he has no legal effects, and two, Lee is a female! Same-sex marriage is still illegal in Pampanga!" said Alex.
"Oh. Okay, I'll just go to Starbucks then and eat my sardinas." said CJ.
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On her way home, Ashley stopped by her childhood church,... uh... she can't remember the name of.. she entered and oho! Another marriage!
She walked down the aisle and looked at the lovely bride and groom.
"Diane! Redmond!"
"Oy! Ashley! How are you?" said Diane. "Let's talk later, ah. I'm getting married now."
"Okay!"
"Hey, Ashley." said the priest.
"Do you know me?"
"Yes, don't you remember me?"
"Oh! Enzo! Sorry I didn't recognize you without your eyeglasses."
"Yes, I got them lasered--"
"So you're a priest now, huh?"
"Yes, I felt that--"
But Ashley sat down before he could finish.
...
After the wedding, Ashley was invited to the reception at Grand Palazzo but she respectfully declined because she had to cut her toenails that night.
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A few weeks later, Ashley received the newspaper and saw the front page. It said:
'Avedillo-Aquino marriage void ab initio, Saladana charged with fraud'
"Yikes..." said Ashley. "Don't they know that one of the formal requisites of marriage is the authority of the solemnizing officer? Psh..."
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Ashley was going around Facebook, looking at her old High School classmates' profiles when she came across JV's.
Apparently he got married in Las Vegas to a stripper and his witnesses were the stripper's two children, aged 4 and 7.
"Psh.. doesn't he know that a marriage ceremony which takes place with the appearance of the contracting parties before the solemnizing officer and their personal declaration that they take each other as husband and wife in the presence of not less that TWO WITNESSES OF LEGAL AGE?"
She looked for more failed marriages...
After reading about more failed marriages, she decided to contact her friend Alex to see what's going on in her life.
"Hi, Phid. What's up? Did you marry Romell like your parents asked you to?"
"No!" she laughed happily. "I told them who I really love and they said if it's what I really want, then they should be happy for me and so I did! I married my dream guy, Ashley! I'm so happy!"
"Wow! That's great! We should celebrate! Let's go out and have some frozen yogurt, I'll call Cha."
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At Cold Spoon's,
"I can't believe you got married to ______!" said Cha.
"I know! I'm so happy for myself!" she said.
Just then, an old lady with a blind left eye came in and crazily pointed at Alex and screamed:
"Your family will be cursed....! You and your husband shall forever suffer....! This is what you get for not marrying Romell...! The only way to break the curse is to dial (045)887-5176!"


What will happen to Alex and her new husband, ______? Will she break the curse? Will they "forever suffer"? Does Romell have anything to do with this? What will happen after she dials the given telephone number? And what will she wear the next day?

Find out in the next part

Goodnight!