RULE 103
Change of name
A person desiring to
change his/her name
may file
Petition is filed by the
person desiring to
change his name
filed before the
Regional Trial Court
where the petitioner
resides for three years
prior to filing, or, in the
City of Manila, to the
Juvenile and Domestic
Relations Court.
Judicial
Proceeding.
Hearing is or adversary
necessary.
A signed and verified
petition shall be filed.
ü  First name,
ü  nickname,
ü  middle name,
ü  surname
RULE 108
Cancellation or
correction of entries in
the civil registry
Any person interested
in any act,
event, order or decree
concerning the civil
status of
persons which has
been recorded in the
civil register may file.
Verified petition in the
form of affidavit is filed
by any person having
direct and personal
interest in the
correction.
filed before the
Regional Trial Court or
province where the
corresponding civil
registry is located
Proceedings may
either be summary
File a verified petition for the
cancellation or correction of
any entry.
entries in the civil i)              clerical
register may
cancelled or corrected:
a)       births;
b)       marriage;
c)        deaths;
d)       legal separations;
e)       judgments
annulments
marriage;
f)        judgments declaring
marriages void from
RULE 9048 RULE 10172
Correct a clerical or
typographical error in
an entry and/or change
of first name or
nickname
Any person having
direct and
personal interest in the
correction of
a clerical or
typographical error in
an entry and/or change
of first name or
nickname may file.
Filed by a person
interested in any acts,
event, order or decree
filed with the Local civil
registry office of city or
municipality where the
record being sought to
be corrected or
changed is kept or with
the Local civil registrar
of the place where the
interested party is
presently residing or
domiciled.
Administrative
Proceeding.
An affidavit shall be
filed.
or
be typographical errors
and
ii)            change of first name or
nickname
of
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1)        RTC of the province in
which he resides, or,
       in the City of Manila, to the
Juvenile and Domestic
Relations Court.
       That the petitioner has been
a bona fide resident of the
province where the petition is
filed for at least 3 years prior
to the date of such filing;
       The cause for which the
change of the petitioner's
name is sought;
       The name asked for.
A petition for change of name
shall
be signed and verified by the
person desiring his name
changed, or some other
person on his behalf,
Court shall direct that a copy
of the order be published
before the hearing at least
once a week for 3 successive
weeks in some newspaper of
general circulation published
in the province, as the court
shall deem best.
the beginning;
g)       legitimations;
h)       adoptions;
i)        acknowledgments of
natural children;
j)         naturalization;
k)       election, loss
recovery of citizenship;
l)        civil interdiction;
m)     judicial determination
of filiation;
n)       voluntary
emancipation
minor; and
o)       changes of name.
RTC of the province where        with the local civil registry
the corresponding civil office
registry is located.
a verified petition for the
cancellation or correction of
any entry relating thereto
Court shall cause reasonable
notice thereof to be given to
the persons named in the
petition. (publication is
sufficient to include all
interested parties.)
The court shall also cause the
order to be published once a
or
of a
of the city or
municipality where the
record being sought to be
corrected or changed is kept.
       In case the petitioner has
already migrated to another
place in the country - the
petition may be filed, in
person, with the local civil
registrar of the place where
the interested party is
presently residing or
domiciled. 
       Citizens of the Philippines
who are presently residing or
domiciled in foreign
countries may file their
petition, in person, with the
nearest Philippine
Consulates.
The affidavit shall set forth
        facts necessary to establish
the merits of the petition and
        shall show affirmatively that
the petitioner is competent to
testify to the matters stated.
       The petitioner shall state the
particular erroneous entry or
entries, which are sought to
be corrected and/or the
change sought to be made.
The verified  petition shall be
in the form of an affidavit,
subscribed and sworn to
before any person authorized
by the law to administer
oaths.
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The date set for the hearing
shall not be within 30 days
prior to an election nor
within 4 month after the last
publication of the notice.
       Any interested person     
       The Solicitor General or the        any
proper provincial or city fiscal
shall appear on behalf of the
Government of the Republic.
       when the name is ridiculous,
tainted with dishonor, or is
extremely difficult to write or
pronounce;
       when the request for change
is a consequence of a change
of status, such as when a
natural child is acknowledged
or legitimated; and
       when the change is necessary
to avoid confusion,
       having continuously used
and had been known since
childhood by a Filipino name,
unaware of her alien
parentage;
       a sincere desire to adopt a
Filipino name to erase signs
of a former alienage, al in
good faith and without
prejudicing surname causes
embarrassment and here is
no showing the desired
change of name was for a
fraudulent purpose or that it
would prejudice public
interest.
that such name be changed in
accordance with the prayer of
the petition.
Judgments or orders – shall
be furnished the civil
registrar of the municipality
or city where the court
issuing the same is situated,
who shall forthwith enter the
same in the civil register
Adopted child’s change of
surname
week for 3 consecutive weeks
in a newspaper of general
circulation in the province.
   The civil registrar and Non-adversarial
person having or
claiming any interest under
the entry whose cancellation
or correction is sought 
within fifteen (15) days from
notice of the petition, or from
the last date of publication of
such notice, file his
opposition thereto.
       The petitioner finds the first
name or nickname to be
ridiculous, tainted with
dishonor or extremely
difficult to write or
pronounce.
       The new first name or
nickname has been habitually
and continuously used by the
petitioner and he has been
publicly known by that by
that first name or nickname
in the community: or
       The change will avoid
confusion.
court may either dismiss the When the petition for a
petition or issue an order change of first name is
granting the cancellation or approved by the C/MCR or
correction prayed for. CG or D/CR and such
decision has not been
impugned by the CRG, the
change shall be reflected in
the birth certificate by way of
marginal annotation.
In either case (dismissed or
granted), a certified copy of
the judgment shall be served
upon the civil registrar
concerned who
shall annotated the same in
his record.
Illegitimacy
Sex
Nationality/citizenship
Civil status