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  • Married Lawyer and A Married Woman Who Is Not His Wife A Ground For Disbarment?

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    A lawyer was engaged in an extramarital and discreet affair with a married woman prior to the annulment of her marriage. The Supreme Court ruled that this constituted grounds for disbarment as the lawyer disrespected the institution of marriage and betrayed his unfitness to practice law. Maintaining such a relationship positioned the lawyer and woman as husband and wife under the presumption of law, despite not having a lawful marriage contract.

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    Guevarra v Eala

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    Married Lawyer and A Married Woman Who Is Not His Wife A Ground For Disbarment?

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    Tiffany Hunt
    A lawyer was engaged in an extramarital and discreet affair with a married woman prior to the annulment of her marriage. The Supreme Court ruled that this constituted grounds for disbarment as the lawyer disrespected the institution of marriage and betrayed his unfitness to practice law. Maintaining such a relationship positioned the lawyer and woman as husband and wife under the presumption of law, despite not having a lawful marriage contract.

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    CASE: GUEVARRA v EALA

    CITATION: A. C. No. 7136


    DECIDED: August 1, 2007
    QUESTION: Is an adulterous relationship (allegedly carried out discreetly)
    between a married lawyer and a married woman who is not his wife a

    ground for disbarment?

    A: YES; A lawyer should be aware that a man and a woman deporting


    themselves as husband and wife are presumed, unless proven otherwise, to have
    entered into a lawful contract of marriage.
    Thus, in carrying on an extramarital affair with a married woman prior to the
    judicial declaration of her marriage as null and void, and despite the lawyer
    himself being married, he showed disrespect for an institution held sacred by
    the law. And he betrayed his unfitness to be a lawyer.

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