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www.cebuattorney.com Hi! I am Jan Edmond Yncierto-Ruz, your host in this co-learning channel. Welcome to a platform dedicated to providing free information and insights on real estate law and inheritance law in the Philippines for both lawyers and non-lawyers. It is crucial to stay informed about property laws and rights, especially regarding real estate, estate and succession, last wills, inheritance, absolute sale, donation inter vivos, agricultural tenancy (saop), land surveying, and other related topics. This channel assists anyone interested in collaborating with their lawyers on cases or transactions involving real estate. We share contributions from co-learners who share links from GOV.PH websites involving Supreme Court decisions, laws, rules, regulations, IRRs, circulars, and memorandums related to real estate and inheritance law. For our lawyer co-learners, please share updates. For non-lawyers, this channel will guide you in finding the right lawyer for your situation. The Supreme Court website has a "Lawyers List" to help identify suitable legal assistance. As a lawyer (attorney-at-law), notary public, geodetic engineer, land surveyor, and real estate broker, I believe in the power of shared knowledge and collaboration. I focus my sharing on these topics that interest me: Probate and Estate Matters: Insights into the probate process, including working with your lawyer on a last will and testament, estate proceedings, and extrajudicial settlements.Declaration of Heirship: Guidance on establishing a declaration of heirship and its implications for asset distribution.Shares of Inheritance: How to determine the shares of inheritance among heirs.Real Estate Lawyer Services: Clarifying the role of your own real estate attorneys in navigating your own legal challenges.Property and Land Title Issues: Understanding legalities surrounding property disputes and considerations when seeking your land title lawyer.Real Estate Contracts: Essential elements in contracts and avoiding common pitfalls by collaborating with your lawyer.Eviction Processes: Understanding tenant rights and how lawyers assist in eviction cases like unlawful detainer and forcible entry.Agrarian Reform: Discussing agrarian reform laws, agricultural tenants, and their impact on land ownership.Land Surveying: The importance of land surveys in defining property boundaries and ensuring clear titles. This channel is for those planning to visit their lawyers for legal advice involving real estate litigation, real estate transactions like absolute sales or lease agreements, and property development.  With co-learning, we share the knowledge needed to engage with your legal counsel effectively. This platform encourages open dialogue about real estate law and related inheritance matters. I invite both lawyers and non-lawyers to share updates. Together, we can explore property laws and estate management, making information accessible. Thank you for being part of this co-learning group! Please contribute by sharing links from GOV.PH websites that contain information on the latest updates involving real estate litigation and transactions. JAN EDMOND Y. RUZLawyer, Geodetic Engineer, Real Estate Brokerwww.CebuAttorney.comEmail: janruzlaw@gmail.comViber/WhatsApp: 0917.678.4457 / +63.917.678.4457

  1. 6d ago

    Is it really a boundary dispute?

    Your neighbor says you built on his land. What should you do next? Is it really a boundary dispute? Can the issue be resolved by simply looking at the land title? Should you immediately remove your fence? Should you commission a relocation survey? What documents should you gather first? What legal issues should you discuss with your own lawyer before taking further action? These are some of the important legal questions discussed in today's Supreme Court case. Boundary disputes, overlapping property claims, relocation surveys, conflicting technical descriptions, title verification, and possession issues frequently arise in residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, tourism, and development properties. Reading Philippine laws, government issuances, and Supreme Court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Rather, it helps landowners, heirs, investors, developers, business owners, buyers, and OFWs ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, administrative regulations, circulars, Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRRs), and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Boundary Disputes • Relocation Survey • Geodetic Survey • Technical Description • Property Boundaries • Overlapping Titles • Title Verification • Due Diligence • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Land Registration • Recovery of Possession • Action for Reconveyance • Accion Publiciana • Accion Reivindicatoria • Forcible Entry • Unlawful Detainer • Land Acquisition • Estate Settlement • Partition • Investor Protection • Land Banking • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, and other official legal references. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, geodetic engineers, real estate brokers, government employees, developers, investors, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #BoundaryDispute #RelocationSurvey #GeodeticSurvey #LandTitle #TitleVerification #DueDiligence #LandRegistration #PropertyLaw #LandAcquisition #InvestorProtection #RealEstateDevelopment #PhilippineLaw

  2. Jul 10

    You lost your Owner's Duplicate Transfer Certificate of Title. What should you do next?

    You lost your Owner's Duplicate Transfer Certificate of Title. What should you do next? Can you still sell the property? Can you still mortgage it? Can you still donate it? Can you still transfer ownership? What documents should immediately be secured? Should you first verify the records with the Registry of Deeds? What evidence should be preserved before taking further action? If you are planning to buy land, should a missing owner's duplicate title affect your due diligence? These are some of the important legal questions discussed in today's Supreme Court case. Questions involving lost owner's duplicate titles, replacement of titles, title verification, Registry of Deeds records, documentary requirements, and due diligence frequently arise in residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, tourism, and development properties. Reading Philippine laws, government issuances, and Supreme Court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Rather, it helps landowners, heirs, investors, developers, business owners, buyers, and OFWs ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, administrative regulations, circulars, Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRRs), and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Lost Owner's Duplicate Certificate of Title • Replacement of Owner's Duplicate Certificate of Title • Reconstitution of Title • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Registry of Deeds • Land Registration Authority (LRA) • Title Verification • Certified True Copy of Title • Due Diligence • Land Acquisition • Documentary Requirements • Land Registration • Deed of Absolute Sale • Estate Settlement • Succession • Partition • Agricultural Land • DAR Clearance • Approved Subdivision Plan • License to Sell • Investor Protection • Land Banking • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, geodetic engineers, real estate brokers, government employees, developers, investors, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #LandTitle #TransferCertificateOfTitle #OriginalCertificateOfTitle #RegistryOfDeeds #LandRegistration #TitleVerification #DueDiligence #LandAcquisition #PropertyLaw #InvestorProtection #LandBanking #RealEstateDevelopment #PhilippineLaw

  3. Jul 5

    Your Original Certificate of Title or Transfer Certificate of Title has been lost or destroyed. What should you do next?

    Your Original Certificate of Title or Transfer Certificate of Title has been lost or destroyed. What should you do next? Can the title still be restored? What documents should immediately be secured? Should you first verify the records with the Registry of Deeds? What government records should be obtained? What evidence should be preserved before taking further action? If you are buying land, should the loss of the title affect your due diligence? These are some of the practical legal questions discussed in today's Supreme Court case. Questions involving lost land titles, destroyed titles, reconstitution of titles, title verification, Registry of Deeds records, and documentary requirements frequently arise in transactions involving residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, tourism, and development properties worth ₱15 Million or more. Reading Philippine laws, government issuances, and Supreme Court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Rather, it helps landowners, heirs, investors, developers, land bankers, business owners, buyers, and OFWs ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, circulars, IRRs, administrative regulations, and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Lost Land Title • Destroyed Land Title • Reconstitution of Title • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Registry of Deeds • Land Registration Authority (LRA) • Certified True Copy of Title • Title Verification • Due Diligence • Land Acquisition • Documentary Requirements • Land Registration • Estate Settlement • Partition • Deed of Absolute Sale • Investor Protection • Land Banking • Agricultural Land • Approved Subdivision Plan • License to Sell • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, geodetic engineers, real estate brokers, government employees, developers, investors, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Contributors may come from: El Nido • Coron • San Vicente (Palawan) • Boracay • Siargao • General Luna • Panglao • Anda • Moalboal • Bantayan Island • Camotes Islands • Siquijor • San Juan (Siquijor) • Guimaras • Samal Island • Camiguin • Batanes • Baler • La Union • Cebu • Bohol • Dumaguete • Manila • Davao City • Iloilo • Bacolod • Cagayan de Oro • Clark • Tagaytay • Batangas #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #LostLandTitle #ReconstitutionOfTitle #OriginalCertificateOfTitle #TransferCertificateOfTitle #RegistryOfDeeds #LandRegistration #TitleVerification #DueDiligence #LandAcquisition #InvestorProtection #LandBanking #RealEstateDevelopment #PropertyLaw #PhilippineLaw

  4. Jul 4

    A government-issued land title or award has already been issued over your property. What should you do next?

    A government-issued land title or award has already been issued over your property. What should you do next? Should you immediately assume that nothing can be done? Should you accept the situation without asking questions? Should you first gather documents? Should you verify the title? Should you discuss the matter with your own lawyer before making your next move? These are some of the important legal questions discussed in today's Supreme Court case. These questions become even more important when they involve residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, tourism, or development properties worth ₱15 Million or more, where a single decision may have long-term legal and financial consequences. Reading Philippine laws, government issuances, and Supreme Court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Rather, it helps landowners, developers, investors, land bankers, business owners, OFWs, foreign heirs, and buyers ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, circulars, IRRs, administrative regulations, and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Due Diligence • Land Acquisition • Title Verification • Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) • Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) • Emancipation Patents (EPs) • Agricultural Land • DAR Coverage • DAR Retention Rights • DAR Clearance • Land Registration • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Investor Protection • Land Banking • Boundary Disputes • Estate Settlement • Partition • Ownership Disputes • Approved Subdivision Plan • License to Sell • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, geodetic engineers, real estate brokers, government employees, developers, investors, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Contributors may come from: El Nido • Coron • San Vicente (Palawan) • Boracay • Siargao • General Luna • Panglao • Anda • Moalboal • Bantayan Island • Camotes Islands • Siquijor • San Juan (Siquijor) • Guimaras • Samal Island • Camiguin • Batanes • Baler • La Union • Cebu • Bohol • Dumaguete • Manila • Davao City • Iloilo • Bacolod • Cagayan de Oro • Clark • Tagaytay • Batangas #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #CARP #CLOA #AgriculturalLand #LandRegistration #LandTitle #TitleVerification #DueDiligence #LandAcquisition #InvestorProtection #LandBanking #RealEstateDevelopment #DARClearance #PropertyLaw #PhilippineLaw

  5. Jul 3

    Can you apply for land registration even if the land became alienable and disposable only years after your family started possessing it?

    Can you apply for land registration even if the land became alienable and disposable only years after your family started possessing it? Should the date of possession matter? Should the date of government classification matter? Can possession by parents or grandparents become legally relevant? Can the possession of previous owners affect a later application for land registration? These are some of the legal questions discussed in today's Supreme Court case. Questions involving land registration, alienable and disposable lands, surveys, imperfect titles, land classification, possession, and ownership frequently arise in residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, and tourism-related properties worth millions of pesos. Reading Philippine laws and Supreme Court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Instead, it helps landowners, heirs, investors, developers, surveyors, buyers, and business owners ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, circulars, IRRs, administrative regulations, and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Land Registration • Alienable and Disposable Land • Public Land • Judicial Confirmation of Imperfect Title • Imperfect Title • Land Classification • Open, Continuous, Exclusive and Notorious Possession • Geodetic Survey • Approved Survey Plan • Due Diligence • Land Acquisition • Title Verification • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Land Registration Authority (LRA) • Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) • Estate Settlement • Partition • Agricultural Land • DAR Clearance • Land Banking • Investor Protection • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, geodetic engineers, real estate brokers, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Contributors may come from: El Nido • Coron • San Vicente (Palawan) • Boracay • Siargao • General Luna • Panglao • Anda • Moalboal • Bantayan Island • Camotes Islands • Siquijor • Guimaras • Samal Island • Camiguin • Batanes • La Union • Baler • Cebu • Bohol • Dumaguete • Manila • Davao City • Iloilo • Bacolod • Cagayan de Oro #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #LandRegistration #AlienableAndDisposableLand #PublicLand #ImperfectTitle #DueDiligence #LandAcquisition #TitleVerification #GeodeticSurvey #LandSurvey #LRA #DENR #InvestorProtection #LandBanking #PhilippineLaw

  6. Jul 2

    When a person dies, what exactly forms part of the inheritance?

    When a person dies, what exactly forms part of the inheritance? Is it only the land? What about bank accounts? Shares of stock? Rental income? Business interests? Loans? Debts? Can every right be inherited? Can every obligation be transferred to the heirs? These are some of the questions that frequently arise when families settle the estate of a loved one. Understanding what may or may not form part of an inheritance is an important starting point before making decisions involving inherited residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, or tourism-related properties. Reading Philippine laws and court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Rather, it helps heirs, landowners, investors, developers, business owners, and buyers ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions involving high-value properties. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, circulars, IRRs, and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Estate Settlement • Succession • Inheritance • Inherited Land • Rights of Heirs • Obligations of Heirs • Estate Administration • Last Will and Testament • Extrajudicial Settlement of Estate • Judicial Settlement of Estate • Partition • Co-Ownership • Due Diligence • Land Acquisition • Title Verification • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Land Registration • Estate Tax • Tax Declaration • Investor Protection • Land Banking • Agricultural Land • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Contributors may come from: Siargao • General Luna • Siquijor • San Juan • Boracay • El Nido • Coron • Palawan • Panglao • Anda • Moalboal • Bantayan Island • Camotes Islands • Guimaras • Samal Island • Cebu • Bohol • Dumaguete • Manila • Davao City • Iloilo • Bacolod • Cagayan de Oro • Camiguin • Baler • La Union • Batanes #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #EstateSettlement #Succession #Inheritance #RightsOfHeirs #EstateAdministration #Partition #CoOwnership #LandTitle #TitleVerification #LandAcquisition #InvestorProtection #LandBanking #PhilippineLaw

  7. Jul 1

    Can you safely rely on a Transfer Certificate of Title when buying land?

    Can you safely rely on a Transfer Certificate of Title when buying land? What if another person later claims ownership? What if someone presents an older Deed of Absolute Sale? What if there are conflicting tax declarations? Should a buyer investigate beyond the title? What level of due diligence is enough before purchasing high-value real estate? These are some of the questions discussed in today's Supreme Court case. For developers, investors, land bankers, OFWs, foreign heirs, buyers of agricultural land, and families acquiring inherited property, these questions can involve properties worth millions of pesos. Reading Philippine laws and Supreme Court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Instead, it helps landowners, buyers, heirs, investors, and developers ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, circulars, IRRs, and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Due Diligence • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Innocent Purchaser for Value • Buyer in Good Faith • Land Acquisition • Title Verification • Deed of Absolute Sale • Tax Declaration • Land Registration • Torrens System • Action for Reconveyance • Cancellation of Title • Recovery of Possession • Investor Protection • Land Banking • Estate Settlement • Partition • Agricultural Land • DAR Clearance • Approved Subdivision Plan • License to Sell • Boundary Disputes • Ownership Disputes • Real Estate Development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Contributors may come from: Siargao • General Luna • Siquijor • San Juan • Boracay • El Nido • Coron • Palawan • Panglao • Anda • Moalboal • Bantayan Island • Camotes Islands • Guimaras • Samal Island • Cebu • Bohol • Dumaguete • Manila • Davao City • Iloilo • Bacolod • Cagayan de Oro • Camiguin • Baler • La Union • Batanes #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #TransferCertificateOfTitle #LandTitle #DueDiligence #TitleVerification #LandAcquisition #InnocentPurchaser #BuyerInGoodFaith #LandRegistration #InvestorProtection #LandBanking #RealEstateDevelopment #PhilippineLaw

  8. Jul 1

    What is the difference between a "decedent" and a "testator"?

    What is the difference between a "decedent" and a "testator"? Do these terms mean the same thing? Why do lawyers, judges, and courts use different terms when discussing inheritance and estate settlement? Does the existence of a will change the legal terminology used in a case? These are some of the questions that frequently arise in discussions involving inherited land, estate settlement, and succession. Understanding legal terminology is one of the first steps in understanding real estate law. A single legal term may appear repeatedly in contracts, court decisions, pleadings, and government issuances. Knowing what these terms mean helps landowners, heirs, investors, developers, and buyers communicate more effectively with their own lawyers. This video discusses one of the fundamental legal terms used in succession law. Reading Philippine laws and court decisions is not intended to encourage anyone to handle legal concerns without professional guidance. Rather, it helps viewers ask their own lawyers better questions so they can better understand their rights, obligations, available options, and potential legal risks before making important decisions involving high-value properties. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jan Edmond Ruz ATTORNEY-AT-LAW / LAWYER GEODETIC ENGINEER / LAND SURVEYOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 📧 Email: janruzlaw@gmail.com 📱 Viber / WhatsApp / Globe 0917-678-4457 +63-917-678-4457 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I am your host for this PHILIPPINE REAL ESTATE LAW co-learning channel. Please send links to recent Philippine real estate laws, Supreme Court decisions, government issuances, circulars, IRRs, and other official legal references to my email, Viber, or WhatsApp. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please support this educational advocacy by sharing GOV.PH links and other official legal references involving Philippine real estate, especially on the following topics: • Succession • Estate Settlement • Decedent • Testator • Last Will and Testament • Intestate Succession • Testate Succession • Rights of Heirs • Surviving Spouse • Extrajudicial Settlement of Estate • Judicial Settlement of Estate • Partition • Due Diligence • Land Acquisition • Title Verification • Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) • Original Certificate of Title (OCT) • Land Registration • Estate Tax • Investor Protection • Land Banking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It does not matter where you are. Share links on the latest Philippine real estate law developments. Lawyers, real estate lawyers, and non-lawyers may contribute. There are no boundaries in a legitimate co-learning journey. Co-learners in this channel who are expert Philippine real estate lawyers are encouraged to email me updates so we can share these updates with the public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Contributors may come from: Siargao • General Luna • Siquijor • San Juan • Boracay • El Nido • Coron • Palawan • Panglao • Anda • Moalboal • Bantayan Island • Camotes Islands • Guimaras • Samal Island • Cebu • Bohol • Dumaguete • Manila • Davao City • Iloilo • Bacolod • Cagayan de Oro • Camiguin • Baler • La Union • Batanes #PhilippineRealEstateLaw #Succession #EstateSettlement #Decedent #Testator #InheritanceLaw #RightsOfHeirs #Partition #LandTitle #TitleVerification #LandAcquisition #InvestorProtection #PhilippineLaw

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www.cebuattorney.com Hi! I am Jan Edmond Yncierto-Ruz, your host in this co-learning channel. Welcome to a platform dedicated to providing free information and insights on real estate law and inheritance law in the Philippines for both lawyers and non-lawyers. It is crucial to stay informed about property laws and rights, especially regarding real estate, estate and succession, last wills, inheritance, absolute sale, donation inter vivos, agricultural tenancy (saop), land surveying, and other related topics. This channel assists anyone interested in collaborating with their lawyers on cases or transactions involving real estate. We share contributions from co-learners who share links from GOV.PH websites involving Supreme Court decisions, laws, rules, regulations, IRRs, circulars, and memorandums related to real estate and inheritance law. For our lawyer co-learners, please share updates. For non-lawyers, this channel will guide you in finding the right lawyer for your situation. The Supreme Court website has a "Lawyers List" to help identify suitable legal assistance. As a lawyer (attorney-at-law), notary public, geodetic engineer, land surveyor, and real estate broker, I believe in the power of shared knowledge and collaboration. I focus my sharing on these topics that interest me: Probate and Estate Matters: Insights into the probate process, including working with your lawyer on a last will and testament, estate proceedings, and extrajudicial settlements.Declaration of Heirship: Guidance on establishing a declaration of heirship and its implications for asset distribution.Shares of Inheritance: How to determine the shares of inheritance among heirs.Real Estate Lawyer Services: Clarifying the role of your own real estate attorneys in navigating your own legal challenges.Property and Land Title Issues: Understanding legalities surrounding property disputes and considerations when seeking your land title lawyer.Real Estate Contracts: Essential elements in contracts and avoiding common pitfalls by collaborating with your lawyer.Eviction Processes: Understanding tenant rights and how lawyers assist in eviction cases like unlawful detainer and forcible entry.Agrarian Reform: Discussing agrarian reform laws, agricultural tenants, and their impact on land ownership.Land Surveying: The importance of land surveys in defining property boundaries and ensuring clear titles. This channel is for those planning to visit their lawyers for legal advice involving real estate litigation, real estate transactions like absolute sales or lease agreements, and property development.  With co-learning, we share the knowledge needed to engage with your legal counsel effectively. This platform encourages open dialogue about real estate law and related inheritance matters. I invite both lawyers and non-lawyers to share updates. Together, we can explore property laws and estate management, making information accessible. Thank you for being part of this co-learning group! Please contribute by sharing links from GOV.PH websites that contain information on the latest updates involving real estate litigation and transactions. JAN EDMOND Y. RUZLawyer, Geodetic Engineer, Real Estate Brokerwww.CebuAttorney.comEmail: janruzlaw@gmail.comViber/WhatsApp: 0917.678.4457 / +63.917.678.4457

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