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Article 367: Use of Surnames ( n) | Civil Code of the Philippines | AskBatas

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This is the source text filed in the AskBatas corpus as Article 367 of Civil Code of the Philippines. The text below is preserved while paragraph breaks are added only for readability.

Provision: Article 367
Parent law: Civil Code of the Philippines
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Natural children by legal fiction shall

principally employ the surname of the father.

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