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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
1st Regular Session 
House Bill No. ________ 
Introduced by Representatives PAOLO Z. DUTERTE, ERIC G. YAP, 
EDVIC G. YAP, and JEFFREY SORIANO 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The 1987 Constitution gives due credence to “the right of children to assistance, 
including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, 
abuse, cruelty, exploitation, and other conditions prejudicial to their development.” 
The said constitutional mandate is tantamount to ensuring that the children have 
sufficient support for subsistence and other aforementioned needs, most especially 
from their parents or legal guardian.   
In a recent study by the World Health Organization, it is accounted that 15 million 
Filipinos are solo parents—ninety-five percent (95%) of which are women. In light that 
majority of the deadbeat parents are men, there is an imminent necessity to ensure 
that both parents are responsible to provide child support through the enforcement of 
stringent penalties. To note, the criminal liability of a deadbeat father is duly provided 
in Republic Act No. 9262 or the Anti-Violation Against Women and Children (Anti-
VAWC) Act, particularly referred to as economic abuse, which includes the 
withdrawal of child support. 
Furthermore, in adherence to the implementation of the Republic Act No. 11861 or the 
Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act and to reduce the clogged court dockets of which 
the subject matter pertains to child support, this bill seeks to institutionalize the 
National Child Support Program to be administered by the Department of Social 
Welfare and Development (DSWD) with the support of relevant agencies in the 
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national and local levels. As provided in the bill, the goal of NCSP is to combine 
national and local government responsibilities and activities into an efficient process 
that provides seven basic services: (i) locating absent parents, (ii) establishing 
paternity, (iii) establishing child support orders, (iv) reviewing and modifying orders, 
(v) establishing and enforcing medical support, (vi) collecting and distributing
support, and (vii) enforcing child support across all provinces. In addition, the
proposed measure also establishes a Child Support Registrar which aims to provide
an ease in the procedures for child support claims.
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 
PAOLO Z. DUTERTE 
ERIC G. YAP 
        EDVIC G. YAP 
           JEFFREY SORIANO 


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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
1st Regular Session 
House Bill No. ________ 
Introduced by Representatives PAOLO Z. DUTERTE, ERIC G. YAP, 
EDVIC G. YAP, and JEFFREY SORIANO 
AN ACT  
ENSURING CHILD SUPPORT AND PENALIZING PARENTAL REFUSAL OR 
NEGLECT THEREOF 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known as the "Child Support 
Responsibility Act of 2022."  
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. Children did not choose to be born. Parents 
should be responsible for the survival and well-being of their children. In cases of 
families with an absent or deadbeat parent or when separation of couples/parents are 
not avoidable, the family should continue to provide an environment of well-being 
and security. This is difficult to provide if custodial parents are forced to work full-
time (or even beyond,) depriving children of attention and guidance as they grow up. 
It is then the policy of the State to ensure that all children-including those in 
households/families where the other parent has refused or failed to give support-will 
have equal chances in life.  
It shall also be the State policy to: 
a. Strengthen marriage as the foundation of a successful society and as an
essential institution of a successful society, which promotes the interests of
children.
b. Promote responsible fatherhood and motherhood as integral to successful
child rearing and the well-being of children. This necessitates the
prevention and reduction of the incidence of pregnancies outside marriage
as well as unplanned pregnancies within marriage.
c.
Mandate child support in all circumstances including in cases of couples
who decided not to get married or separate (whether legally or otherwise)
or parents who refused to or failed to give child support.
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d. Support families/parents to establish paternity in cases when it is not 
certain. 
 
e. Mandate the government through its agencies and instrumentalities to 
withhold or refuse servicing of request (e.g., driver’s license, passport, etc.) 
of deadbeat parents or those with unresolved child support cases. 
 
f. End/minimize the dependence of needy parents on government benefits 
by promoting job preparation, work, marriage, and responsible 
parenthood. 
 
g. Establish job opportunities where non-custodial parents may be assisted so 
they may continue to support their children. 
 
 
SEC. 3. Definitions. - As used in this Act. 
 
a. Child refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or a person 18 
years or over but is unable to fully take care or protect himself/herself from 
abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because of physical 
or pyscho-social disability or condition; 
 
b. Child support is money regularly paid by one parent to the other parent for 
the purpose of providing adequate financial support to their common child 
or children. Oftentimes, child support is paid by the non-custodial parent 
to the custodial parent or guardian/carer in case of an orphan, or close 
relatives in case of a child or children left in their care by both parents. This 
support is meant for the maintenance of a child, or a child and the parent 
with whom medical attendance, education, and transportation, arrearages, 
or reimbursement, and which may include related costs and fees, interest 
and penalties, income withholding, attorneys’ fees, and other relief; 
 
c. Child Support Register means the child support register or database that 
is established by this Act; 
 
d. Complex cases - child support cases with circumstances that make them 
difficult or impossible to be resolved administratively or in the level and 
authority of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD); 
 
e. Custodian-parent refers to the parent who is raising a child/person or 
his/her own in the absence of the co-parent who is otherwise alive; 
 
f. Deadbeat parent refers to a parent who has abandoned his/her parental 
obligation or is unwilling to pay his/her child support obligation; 
 
g. Department refers to the Department of Social Welfare and Development 
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h. Disbursement Unit - a unit within the National Child Support Program or the 
designated disbursing unit tasked by DSWD to receive and disburse child 
support funds; 
 
i. Employment Placement Program (EPP) is a government program 
established under this Act and is mandated to assist single parents (both 
custodial and non-custodial parents) by way of employment placement or 
access to seed funding for a qualified business or purpose. 
 
j. Lump sum payment due is the total amount due as child support payment 
to cover a missed period (e.g., months/years during which the non-
custodian parent abandoned the child or refused/failed to give child 
support up to the time of issuance of the child support order). 
 
k. Medical support is the legal provision of payment of medical, prescription, 
and other health care expenses or the child. 
 
l. Qualified business or purpose is a purpose that may qualify for 
government support such as the provision of access to secondary or tertiary 
education in the public/government schools/universities, scholarship and 
no-interest seed fund for a start-up business or additional capitalization for 
an ongoing but financially-needy business. 
 
m. No-interest seed fund or additional capitalization is a qualified financial 
support from the government (through a participating agency such as 
Social Security System), to be paid back by the borrower (i.e., custodial or 
non-custodial) at no -interest rate and flexible terms.  
 
n. Overseas Authority means a judicial or administrative authority of a 
reciprocating jurisdiction/state/country that is responsible for giving effect 
to an international maintenance arrangement; 
 
o. Parent Locator Service (PLS) refers to a system or group of systems 
managed by the government to assist parents in locating non-custodial 
parents, putative fathers, and custodial parties for the establishment of 
paternity and child support, custody and visitation. 
 
p. Periodic amount is the monthly, semi-monthly (fortnightly) or periodic 
amount of child support that has been ordered by the court or the 
Department. In no case shall payments be allowed longer than or beyond 1 
(one) month except in rare cases (e.g., for overseas non-custodian parent) 
when it is more cost-efficient to send child support in quarterly basis. In 
such a situation, the periodic amount must be included in any case review; 
 
q. Regional Director refers to the head of the Field Office of DSWD; 
 
r. Relative refers to a relative within the fourth degree of consanguinity or 
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s. Secretary refers to the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and 
Development; 
 
t. Simulation of birth refers to supplying of wrong information to the birth 
record of a child making it appear in the birth records that a certain child 
was born to a person who is not the biological mother or father, causing the 
loss of the true identity of the child; 
 
u. Social Welfare Development Officer refers to a person who is a duly 
licensed social worker and appointed by the local chief executive to head 
the provincial, city or municipal social development office which serves as 
the frontline of the local government unit in the delivery of the social 
welfare and development programs and services; 
 
v. Social worker refers to a licensed practitioner who by accepted academic 
training and social work professional experience possesses the skill to 
achieve  the objectives as defined and set by the social work profession, 
through the use of the basic methods and techniques of social work 
(casework, group work, and community organizations) which are designed 
to be enable individual, groups and communities to meet their needs and 
to solve the problems of adjustment to changing pattern of society and, 
through coordinated action, to improved economic and social conditions, 
and is connected with an organized social work agency which is supported 
partially or wholly from government or community solicited funds;  
 
w.  Solo parent, as defined by the Solo Parent Act of 2000 (RA 8972) is:  
 
 
1. A woman who gives birth as a result of rape and other crimes against 
persons even without a final conviction of the offender, provided that 
mother keeps and raises the child. 
 
2. Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to the 
following circumstances:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
i. 
Due to death of spouse. 
 
 
 
 
ii. 
Spouse is detained or is serving sentence for a criminal conviction for 
at least one (1) year 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
iii. 
Physical and/or mental incapacity of spouse as certified by a public 
medical practitioner. 
 
 
 
 
 
iv. 
Legal separation or de facto separation from spouse for at least one 
(1) year, as long as he/she is entrusted with the custody of the 
children. 
v. 
Declaration of nullity or annulment of marriage as decreed by a court 
or by a church as long as he/she is entrusted with the custody of the 
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3. Unmarried mother/father who has preferred to keep and rear her/his 
child/children instead of having others care for them or give them up to 
a welfare institution. 
 
4. Any other person who solely provides parental care and support to a 
child or children. 
 
5. Any family member who assumes the responsibility of head of family 
as a result of the death, abandonment, disappearance of prolonged 
absence of the parents or solo parent. A change in the status or 
circumstances of the parent claiming benefits under this Act, such that 
he/she is no longer left alone with the responsibility of parenthood, 
shall terminate his/her eligibility for these benefits. 
 
x. Support Order means a judgment, decree, or order, whether temporary, 
final, or subject to modification issued by the court or an authority (e.g., 
Department of Social Welfare and Development) for the support and 
maintenance of a child. 
 
y. Work- and income support-related withholding payment means 
payments from which an amount must be withheld as mandated by this 
Act. 
The 
payments 
covered 
are 
salaries, 
wages, 
commissions, 
compensation, and other similar payments to employees and company 
arrangements, payments of annuities, payments of superannuation 
benefits, payments for termination of employment, payments for unused 
leave, benefits payments, compensation payments, payments specified by 
regulations, alienated personal services payments, and other similar 
salaries, wages, commissions, compensation, and payments.  
 
 
SEC. 4. Establishment of the National Child Support Program (NSCP). - This 
Act establishes the National Child Support Program, which will be administered by 
the Department of Social Welfare and Development in strict compliance of and with 
the support of relevant agencies in the national and local levels. Recognizing that 
competing social and economic needs exist, organs of state in the national, regional, 
provincial, and where applicable, local spheres of government must, in the 
implementation of this Act, take reasonable measures to the maximum extent of their 
available resources to achieve the realization of the objectives of this Act.  
 
 
SEC. 5. Compliance of Local Government Units (LGU). - In order to facilitate 
the collection of support in inter-LGU cases, an LGU must work together with other 
LGUs in establishing paternity, locating absent parents, and securing compliance with 
an order issued by the Family Court or DSWD in another locality/LGU.  
 
 
SEC. 6. Compliance of Participating or Relevant Government Agencies. - 
Participating or relevant agencies are required to use several enforcement tools and 
instrumentalities in enforcing this Act.  
 
 
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a. Imposing liens against real and personal property for amounts of overdue 
child support; 
 
b. Withholding tax refunds payable to a parent who is delinquent in child 
support payments; 
 
c. Reporting the amount of overdue support to a consumer credit bureau 
upon request; 
 
d. Requiring individuals who have demonstrated a pattern of delinquent 
payments to post a bond or give some other guarantee to secure payment 
of overdue support; 
 
e. Establishing expedited processes within the judicial system or under 
administrative processes for obtaining and enforcing child support orders 
and determining paternity. These expedited procedures include giving 
relevant authorities the power to secure assets to satisfy payment of past-
due support by seizing or attaching salaries/compensation, judgements, 
settlements, lotteries, assets held in financial institutions, and public and 
private retirement funds; 
 
f. Withholding, suspending, or restricting the use of driver’s licenses, 
professional and occupational licenses, and recreational and sporting 
licenses of non-custodial parents who owe past-due child support; 
 
g. Denying passports to person with past-due child support unless he or she 
has appeared in a family court or DSWD and complied with requirements 
for travel; 
 
h. Requiring unemployed non-custodial parents who owe child support to 
participate in appropriate work activities or avail of relevant government 
programs as provided for in this Act; 
 
i. Performing quarterly data matches with financial institutions; and 
 
j. Voiding fraudulent transfers of assets to avoid payment of child support. 
 
 
ARTICLE II 
ELIGIBILITY  
 
 
SEC. 7. Solo Parents. - All qualified individuals (“solo parents”) as provided 
for in this Act may avail of the NCSP.  
 
 
SEC. 8. Locating and Dealing with Deadbeat Parents. - Qualified solo parents 
may request for government assistance in locating and filing for cases against 
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completed a case filing and committed to pay child support are qualified to seek 
government support as provided for in this Act in meritorious cases (e.g., 
unemployment, loss of business, bankruptcy, etc.).  
 
 
ARTICLE III 
PROCEDURES 
 
 
SEC. 9. Roles, Responsibilities, and Services of the National Child Support 
Program (NCSP). The goal of NCSP is to combine national and local government 
responsibilities and activities into an efficient process that provides seven basic 
services: (i) locating absent parents, (ii) establishing paternity, (iii) establishing child 
support orders, (iv) reviewing and modifying orders, (v) establishing and enforcing 
medical support, (vi) collecting and distributing support, and (vii) enforcing child 
support across all provinces.  
 
a. Locating parents. In pursuing cases, designated NCSP staff/officials shall 
obtain information and several documents for the custodial parent or other 
sources. These include the name and address of the non-custodial parent; 
the non-custodial parent’s Social Security System Number (SSSN) or a 
similar identifying number; children’s birth certificates; the child support 
order (if already acquired/issued); the annulment/divorce decree or 
separation agreement; the name and address of the current or most recent 
employer of the non-custodial parent might belong; information about 
income and assets; and any other information about non-custodial parents 
that might help locate them. Once this information is provided, it is used in 
strictest confidence. If the NCSP cannot locate the non-custodial parent with 
the information provided by the custodial parent, it must try to locate the 
non-custodial parent through the NCSP’s Parent Locator Service. The NCSP 
may use various information sources such as telephone, directories, motor 
vehicle registries, tax files, and employment and unemployment records. 
The NCSP can likewise request other authorized government agencies 
(such as the Department of Foreign Affairs) to locate the non-custodial 
parent. The authorized agency can access data from other agencies such as 
Social Security System, BIR, Philippine Statistics Authority, Land 
Transportation Office, or any relevant agency involved in the program.  
 
b. Establishing paternity. Paternity establishment is a prerequisite for 
obtaining a child support order. Without paternity established, children 
have no legal claim on their fathers’ income. In addition to financial 
benefits, establishing paternity can provide social, psychological, and 
emotional benefits and in some cases the father’s medical history may be 
needed to give a child proper care. It is the duty of the State to assist 
custodian parents to establish the paternity of a child. This Act creates 
simpler civil procedures for establishing paternity in contested cases, by 
requiring all parties in a contested paternity case to take a genetic or 
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test upon the valid request of a custodian 
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shall provide for the laboratory costs of these tests. DSWD shall set 
paternity 
establishment 
standards 
and 
procedures 
through 
the 
Implementing Rules and Regulations of this Act in coordination with the 
following agencies: (i) the Department of Health; (ii) Department of Justice; 
and the Philippine Statistics Authority. To further simplify the procedure, 
a simple civil process for voluntarily acknowledging paternity shall be 
established under which the Government must explain the rights and 
responsibilities of acknowledging paternity and afford due process 
safeguards. Procedures must include a hospital-based system for the 
voluntary acknowledgment of paternity during the period immediately 
preceding or following the birth of a child. 
 
c. Establishing Orders. A child support order legally obligates non-custodial 
parents to provide financial support for their children and stipulates the 
amount of the obligation (e.g., monthly obligation plus arrearages, if any) 
and how it is to be paid. DSWD may establish child support obligations 
either by judicial or administrative process. 
 
1. Judicial and administrative systems. The family courts have 
traditionally played a major role in child- and women-related cases. 
Judges issue orders, establish paternity, and provide authority for all 
enforcement activity. Women and child rights literature generally 
concludes that the judicial process offers several advantages, especially 
by providing more adequate protection for the legal rights of women 
and children and by offering a wide range of enforcement remedies, 
such as civil contempt and possible incarceration. A major problem of 
using courts, however, is that they are often cumbersome, expensive, 
and time consuming.  Therefore, the advantages of an administrative 
process are very compelling. These include offering quicker service 
because documents do not have to be filled with the court clerk nor 
await the signature of the judge, eliminating time-consuming problems 
in scheduling court appearances, providing a more uniform and 
consistent obligation amount, and saving money because of reduced 
court costs and attorney fees. DSWD shall issue guidelines for cases 
when administrative procedure is better adapted.  
2. Determining the amount of support orders. The decision of how much 
a parent should pay for child support is left primarily to the discretion 
of DSWD and/or the court in full consultation with relevant agencies 
such as the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) 
and resource persons (family counselors, economists or socio-
economists, and financial analysts), who shall be involved in the 
drafting of the IRR. However, this Act mandates that child support shall 
not be lower than Six Thousand Pesos (Php 6,000.00) per month, which 
is equivalent to Two Hundred Pesos (Php 200.00) per day. The child 
support obligation with an agreed schedule subject to the country’s 
economic indices and income classification and revisions or deviations 
as permitted by this Act and its IRR. Except as provided in this Act or its 
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determining the obligation, which shall be divided proportionately 
between the parents based upon their respective net incomes. The 
noncustodial parent’s proportionate share establishes the amount of the 
child support order. 
 
d. Reviewing and modifying order. The NCSP shall review guidelines at least 
once every four (4) years and have procedures for review and adjustment 
of orders, consistent with a plan indicating how and when child support 
orders are to be reviewed and adjusted. Review may take place at the 
request of either parent subject to the order or at the request of the child if 
he or she is ascertained to be of the right age or maturity, which is ordinarily 
expected at about age 15 to 18. Any adjustment to the award must be 
consistent with the NCSP guidelines, which must be used as a rebuttable 
presumption in establishing or adjusting the support order. This Act also 
requires NCSP to review all orders being enforced under the child support 
program within 36 months after establishment or after the most recent 
review of the order and to adjust the order in accord with the State’s 
guidelines. The NCSP shall notify parents in cases being enforced by the 
Government of their right to request a review, of their right to be informed 
of the forthcoming review at least 30 days before the review begins, and of 
any proposed adjustment or determination that there should be no change 
in the award amount. In the latter case, the parent must be given at least 30 
days after notification to initiate proceedings to challenge the proposed 
adjustment or determination.  
 
e. Enforcing medical support and protecting children from insurance 
disqualification. Medical child support shall form a part of all child support 
orders. Insurers are prohibited from denying enrollment of a child under 
the health insurance coverage of the child’s non-custodian parent on the 
grounds that the child was born out of marriage, is not claimed as a 
dependent on the parent’s income tax return, or does not reside with the 
parent or in the insurer’s service area.  
 
f. Collecting and issuing support. To the extent possible, the non-custodian 
parent should make the payment of child support directly to the custodian 
parent.  Family courts or the NCSP shall collect child support when the non-
custodial parent does not pay or refuses to pay the custodian parent 
directly. The most important custodial collection method is wage 
withholding. Other techniques for enforcing payments include regular 
billings; delinquency notices; liens on property; offset of other 
compensation payments; seizure and sale of property; garnishment of 
wages; seizure of income tax refunds; attachment of lottery winnings; and 
insurance settlements of debtor parents. Payment of support shall always 
be enforced through a system that allows reporting of arrearages to credit 
agencies, revocation of various types of licenses, and other withholding of 
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g. Enforcing child support orders across all LGUs. When non-custodial 
parents move to or live in another LGU (e.g., province), enforcing child 
support is cumbersome and may be ineffective. LGUs are required to 
cooperate in inter-LGU child support enforcement. This Act shall establish 
and enforce support obligations when the non-custodial parent and 
custodial parent do not live in the same LGU. This Act provides a system 
for the inter-LGU enforcement of support orders without requiring the 
person seeking support to go (or have her legal representatives go) to the 
LGU in which the non-custodial parents reside. This Act shall be used to 
establish paternity, locate an absent parent, and establish, modify, or 
enforce a support order across all LGU lines. 
 
 
ARTICLE IV 
ADMINISTRATION 
 
SEC. 10. Child Support Register. - A Child Support Register shall be established 
by the NCSP. This shall be headed by a Child Support Registrar, who is: (i) a DSWD 
employee; and (ii) specified in a written instrument made by the Secretary. The 
Secretary shall have general administration of this Act. The Child Support Registrar 
shall be kept in such form (whether or not in a documentary form) as the Secretary 
and Registrar consider appropriate.   
 
SEC. 11. Annual Report. - The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after 30 
June in each year, prepare and furnish to both Houses of Congress a report on the 
working of this Act. 
 
SEC. 12. Privacy. - A person to whom this Act applies must not: (i) make a 
record of any protected information; or (ii) whether directly or indirectly, 
communicate to a person any protected information is communicated: (i) under or for 
the purposes of this Act; or (ii) in the performance of duties, as a person to whom this 
section applies, under or in relation to this Act; or (iii) for the purpose for which the 
information was communicated under this section. Prevailing laws on data privacy 
(e.g., Republic Act No. 10173) shall apply.  
 
SEC. 13. Applications, notices, or election to be in the manner specified by the 
Registrar. - The Registrar may specify the manner in which an application, notice, or 
election required or able to be made or given under this Act is to be made or given.  
 
a. Without limiting, in respect of an application, notice or election, the 
Registrar may specify any or all of the following matters: (i) the content of 
the application, notice, or election; (ii) that the content  is to be made or 
given in a particular form approved by the Registrar; (iii) that the content is 
to be made or given orally; (iv) that specified documents are to accompany 
it; (v) that the content is to be verified or that a document accompanying it 
is to be verified; (vi) that it may be given on a specified kind of data 
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specifying that it may be given in accordance with certain software 
requirements.  
 
b. In relation to an application, notice or election, if the Registrar specifies that 
it, or a document accompanying it, must be signed, the Registrar may also 
specify that, if it is given to the Registrar on a data processing device, or by 
way of electronic transmission, the process may contain the electronic 
signature of the person (such as custodial-parent) concerned. 
 
c. The Registrar may in writing approve a form of application or notice of 
election for the purposes of a particular section of this Act.  
 
 
 
SEC. 14. Role of Government Agencies. - The successful enforcement of this Act 
through the NCSP is reliant on the strong compliance and coordination of all 
participating agencies, namely: 
 
a. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 
b. Department of Justice (DOJ) and its Family Courts 
c. Social Security System (SSS) 
 
d. Government Service and Insurance System (GSIS) 
e. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Local 
Government Units (LGUs)  
f. Department of Education (DepEd)  
g. Department of Health (DOH) 
h. Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)  
i. Civil Service Commission (CSC)  
j. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) 
k. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) 
l. Land Transportation Office (LTO) 
m. Department of Foreign Affair (DFA) 
n. Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) 
o. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 
p. Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) 
q. National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) 
r. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 
s. National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 
t. Philippine National Police (PNP) 
u. Insurance Commission (IC) 
v. Credit Information Corporation (CIC) 
w. Commission on Higher Education (CHED) 
x. Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) 
 
 
DSWD shall be authorized to enlist the support of other agencies if or when 
necessary, provided that a policy issuance had been issued at least thirty (30) working 
days prior to the enlistment.  
 
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i. 
Administration. DSWD shall administer the NCSP. It shall establish 
standards for locating absent parents, establishing paternity, and 
obtaining child support and support and support for the spouse (or 
former spouse) with whom the child is living. In addition to this broad 
statutory mandate, the Department is required to establish minimum 
organizational and staffing requirements for the NCSP, and to review 
and approve plans. 
 
ii. 
Assistance to LGUs. It shall also provide technical assistance to partner 
agencies or LGUs to help them establish effective systems for 
implementing the requirements of this Act. To fulfill this requirement, it 
shall establish a central location for the collection and dissemination of 
information about the program. It shall work with any Bar Association 
(e.g., Integrated Bar of the Philippines), toward training and information 
dissemination on legal issues to persons working in the field of child 
support enforcement. 
 
iii. 
Research and information dissemination. The Department should 
conduct research and information dissemination when it comes to the 
program. The Department shall make it possible for LGUs to test 
innovative approaches to support enforcement so long as the 
modification does not disadvantage children in need of support nor 
result in a significant increase in administration costs. The Department 
shall develop and evaluate innovative approaches toward the reduction 
of welfare dependency, increasing child well-being, strengthening 
family life, discouraging teenage, unplanned, or out-of-marriage 
pregnancies, family planning, and related themes. The Department shall 
assist LGUs in developing, and shall evaluate, innovative approaches 
for reducing welfare dependency and increasing the well-being of minor 
children living at home. The Secretary may provide funds for training 
and technical assistance to carry out the approaches developed pursuant 
to this paragraph.  
 
iv. 
Data Collection. The Department shall collect, on an annual basis, and 
report to Congress, the following disaggregated case record information 
on the families receiving assistance under the program: (i) number of 
cases filed and closed; (ii) residence of the family; (iii) whether a child 
receiving such assistance or an adult in the family has special needs; (iv) 
employment status and earnings of the employed adult in the family; 
(v) the marital status of the adults in the family, including whether such 
adults have never married, are widowed, or are divorced; (vi) 
educational status of each adult in the family; (vii)  educational status of 
each adult in the family; (viii) whether the family receives subsidized 
housing, medical assistance under the program, amount receive, ect.; 
(ix) number of months that the family has received child support; (x) if 
the adults participated in, and the number of hours per week of 
participation in activities such as those concerning education, 
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availing of support fund for a business; and other relevant data as 
required in this Act.  
 
v. 
Family Assistance Program (FAP-NCSP). The Department with the 
support of concerned agencies shall outline how the government 
intends to do the following (i) conduct a program, designed to serve all 
political subdivisions in the country, that provides assistance to needy 
families with (or expecting) children and provides parents with job 
preparation, work, and support services to enable them to become self-
sufficient and pay child support; (ii) require a parent or caretaker 
receiving assistance under the program to engage in work once the 
government determines the parent or caretaker is ready to engage in 
work, or once the parent or caretaker has received assistance under the 
program for 24 months (whether or not consecutive), whichever is 
earlier; (iii) ensure that parents and caretakers receiving assistance 
under the program engage in work/business activities in accordance 
with this Act; (iv) conduct a program, designed to reach LGUs and local 
law enforcement officials, the education system, and relevant counseling 
services, that provides education and training on the problem of 
statutory rape so that teenage pregnancy prevention programs may be 
expanded in scope to include men.  
 
vi. 
Development of standards and procedures to ensure against fraud and 
abuse. The Department with the support of relevant agencies such as 
DILG, PNP, and NBI, shall establish and enforce standards and 
procedures to ensure against program fraud and abuse, including 
standards and procedures concerning nepotism, conflicts of interest 
among individuals responsible for the administration and supervision 
of the program, kickbacks, and the use of political patronage.  
 
vii. 
Protection of women and families from domestic abuse. The 
Department State shall establish and enforce standards and procedures 
to: (i) screen and identify individuals receiving assistance under this Act 
with a history of domestic violence while maintaining the 
confidentiality of such individuals; (ii) refer such individuals to 
counseling and supportive services; and (iii) waive, pursuant to a 
determination of good cause, other program requirement such as time 
limits (for so long as necessary) for individuals receiving assistance, 
residency requirements, child support cooperation requirements, and 
family cap provisions, in cases where compliance with such 
requirements would make it more difficult for individuals receiving 
assistance under this part to escape domestic violence or unfairly 
penalize such individuals who are or have been victimized by such 
violence, or individuals who are at risk of further domestic violence. 
 
viii. 
Enforcement of orders against paternal or maternal grandparents in 
case of minor parents, death, or other special cases (eg., refusal to pay 
child support, illness, incapacity, etc.). Procedures under which, at the 


 
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government’s option, any child support order enforced with respect to 
a child of minor non-custodial parents, if the custodial parent of such 
child is receiving assistance under the program, shall be enforceable, 
jointly and severally, against the parents if the non-custodial parent of 
such child. Liability to family members of a non-custodial parent who 
intervene and block child support payments shall also be enforced. 
Upon death of a non-custodial parent or he/she refuses or is otherwise 
unable to give child support due to incapacity, illness, or other justifiable 
reason, his parent or next of kin are also liable to pay child support in 
the order established by Articles 195 and 196 of the Family Code of the 
Philippines.  
 
ix. 
Income disparity between custodial and non-custodial parents. Even if 
the non-custodial parent earns substantially less than the custodial 
parent, he/she is obliged to give child support but their respective 
contributions must be in proportion to their income and consistent with 
Section 9 (3.2). This Act prohibits under-declaration or mis-declaration 
of income of parents to evade responsibility or lessen child support. 
Parents in child support cases are required to fill out an Income and 
Expense Declaration under penalty of perjury and provide proof of the 
amount of their incomes. The Department with the assistance of relevant 
authorities shall look into all sources of the parents’ income such as 
salaries, professional fees, stock dividends, investment earnings, 
sideline earnings, bonuses, commissions, 13th and 14th month pay, 
inheritance, insurance proceeds, SSS benefits, and even lottery prize 
winnings. 
 
x. 
Children who are already income-earners. In cases when a child is 
already an income-earner or is deemed more financially affluent, non-
custodial and custodial parents are still obliged to pay child support. 
Under present laws, the father and the mother jointly exercise legal 
guardianship over the property of the unemancipated common child 
earned or acquired with his work or industry or by onerous or 
gratuitous title shall belong to the child in ownership and be devoted 
exclusively to the latter’s support and education, unless the title or 
transfer provides otherwise. The right of the parents over the fruits and 
income of the child’s property shall be limited primarily to the child’s 
support and secondarily to the collective daily needs of the family, 
which should not be excessive or jeopardize the future of the income-
earning child. As added protection, contractual arrangements of an 
income-earning child after thirty six (36) months of continuous 
work/project shall provide for automatic remittance/deposit of not less 
than thirty five percent (35%) to a trust fund in the name of the child. 
Parents in such circumstances shall be required to continue working or 
maintaining their own career or businesses and not replying solely on 
the income of the income-earning child. To discourage misappropriation 
of the minor child’s funds and fruit of labor, offending parent/s can be 
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offenders, the guardian/substitute parent or next of kin can demand 
support from the offending parents so that the minor child’s properties 
can remain intact for his/her future.  
 
xi. 
Monitoring and evaluation. In performing the monitoring and 
evaluation of the Program, the Secretary shall propose and implement 
the best evaluation methodology. The Department shall also conduct a 
biennial review and/or impact study to establish the effectiveness, 
efficiency, and sustainability of the program. 
 
xii. 
Management of transition and eventual transfer of core functions to the 
local governments. By virtue of the Mandanas Ruling (Supreme Court, 
2018), it is critical that the core functions of NCSP are devolved to the 
local governments beginning 2022 or as mandated by the government. 
Upon its finality, DSWD is mandated to develop and implement a 
transition plan as well as a capacity development program to prepare 
the local governments. 
  
2. Role of the Department of Justice and Family Courts 
 
i. 
Evaluation, trial, and issuance of child support order.  Some child 
support cases-particularly more complex ones, which cannot be 
evaluated and decided upon administratively-will go through legal 
court procedures as per relevant laws. The IRR of this Law shall provide 
for clear and expedited procedures in consideration of the precarious 
situation of needy, abandoned, and disadvantaged children. The 
Department of Justice-through the Committee for the Special Protection 
of Children (CSPC)-shall assist in coordinating and monitoring the 
investigation and prosecution of complex cases involving violation of 
this Act.  
 
ii. 
Authorized action. The Family Courts shall take the following actions in 
cases that cannot be evaluated administratively: (i) to order genetic 
testing for the purpose of paternity establishment as provided in this 
Act; (ii) to subpoena any financial or other information needed to 
establish, modify, or enforce a support order, and to impose penalties 
for failure to respond to such a subpoena; (iii) to require all entities 
(including for-profit, non-profit, and governmental employers) to 
provide promptly, in response to a request by the government or any 
other entity administering the NCSP, information on the employment, 
compensation, and benefits of any individual employed by such entity 
as an employee or contactor, and to sanction failure to respond to any 
such request; (iv) to obtain access, subject to safeguards on privacy and 
information security, and subject to the non-liability of entities that 
afford such access under this Act, to information contained pertinent 
following records (including automated access, in the case of records 
maintained 
in 
automated 
databases) 
in 
relevant 
agencies/organizations; (v) in cases in which support is subject to an 


 
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assignment in order to comply with a requirement imposed pursuant to 
this Act, or to a requirement to pay through the NCSP Disbursement 
Unit established pursuant to this Act, upon providing notice to obligor 
and obligee, to direct the obligor or other payor to change the payee to 
the appropriate entity; (vi) to order income withholding in accordance 
with this Act; and (vii) for the purpose of securing overdue support, to 
increase the amount of monthly support payments to include amounts 
for arrearages, subject to such conditions or limitations as the 
government may provide.  
 
iii. 
Safeguards. Such procedures shall be subjected to due process 
safeguards, including (as appropriate) requirements for notice, 
opportunity to contest the action, and opportunity for an appeal on the 
record to an independent administrative or judicial tribunal.  
 
iv. 
Bankruptcy of non-custodial parents. A filing of bankruptcy does not 
stay a paternity, child support, or alimony proceeding. Nevertheless, 
non-custodial parents who have suffered such an eventuality may avail 
of assistance as provided for in this Act. In addition, child support and 
alimony payments are made priority claims and custodial parents may 
appear in bankruptcy court to protect their interests without paying a 
fee or meeting any local rules for attorney appearances.  
 
v. 
Death or incapacity of non-custodial parents. Death or incapacity does 
not stay a paternity, child, support, or alimony proceeding. 
Nevertheless, non-custodial parents who have suffered death or 
incapacity/disability (making him unable to work or conduct a 
business) may still support his/her child through a valid share in  
his/her death and disability benefits as provided for by his/her public 
or private social security membership or insurer (e.g., SSS or GSIS, or 
private insurer). Recognizing that non-custodial parents who have 
suffered permanent disabilities will naturally need assistance, too, the 
IRR shall put in place clear guidelines and remedies to ensure fairness. 
This Act recognizes that in no instance should a child (whether 
legitimate or illegitimate) be deprived of equal chance to survive and 
accorded with financial security.  
 
vi. 
Obligation of non-custodial parents who are foreigners residing in the 
Philippines. Non-custodial parents who are foreigners and residing in 
the Philippines are also covered by this Act. International conventions 
or agreements signed or ratified by the Philippines (e.g., Vienna 
Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Vienna Conventions on Consular 
Relations, etc.) shall not offer immunity to offending parties. In the event 
of their departure from the Philippines, inter-country agreements and 
procedures on child support shall prevail.  
 
3. Role of the Social Security System (SSS), Government Service Insurance 
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SSS, 
GSIS, 
and 
private 
insurers 
are 
mandated 
to 
require 
applying/prospective members to identify all their dependents-whether 
legitimate or illegitimate. All current members must update their 
membership data, which should bear the same information. Any availment 
of benefits (including loans) shall require a statement that the applicant has 
no pending child support case.  
 
SSS, GSIS, and private insurers are mandated to issue guidelines as to legal 
share of qualified illegitimate children in the benefits (e.g., pension) of 
deceased members. In no instance should the share be less than 50% of what 
a qualified legitimate child is entitled to receive.  
 
4. Role of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and 
Local Government Units (LGUs) 
 
i. 
Principles of cooperation and reciprocity. This Act provides a system 
for the inter-LGU enforcement of child support orders without requiring 
the person seeking child support or her or his legal representative to go 
to the province, city, or municipality in which the non-custodial parent 
resided. DILG and LGUs are required to comply with this Act and 
provide the necessary information or assistance (e.g., so that custodial 
parents may be assisted and non-custodial parents may be located). 
 
ii. 
Support from LGUs. DILG/LGUs may obtain the address of non-
resident parents who owed child support under a DSWD/court order 
for support. In addition, each LGU is required to establish an 
organizational unit to establish paternity and collect child support for 
deserted children. LGUs are also required to work cooperatively with 
each other under child support reciprocity agreements and with 
DSWD/courts and law enforcement officials. Recognizing that law 
enforcement officials are overwhelmed with an assortment of cases and 
that most of them may find absent/non-custodial parents low priority, 
the LGU shall allow reimbursement of costs related to paternity and 
child support activities.  
 
iii. 
Issuance of local ordinances. LGUs are required to adopt laws requiring 
civil procedures to voluntarily acknowledge paternity (including 
hospital-based programs). The Act also requires LGUs to adopt laws to 
ensure the compliance of health insurers and employers in carrying out 
court or administrative orders for medical child support and include a 
provision that prohibit health insurers from denying coverage to 
children who were not living with the covered individual or born 
outside marriage.  
 
iv. 
Location and case tracking. DILG/LGUs are mandated to help the 
NCSP acquire, automate, and use information. First, LGUs have to 
establish a local registry of all child support cases and all other new or 


 
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modified child support cases in their jurisdictions. The registry has to 
contain specified minimum data elements for all cases. For cases 
enforced by the program, the registry also has to contain a wide array of 
information that is to be regularly updated, including the amount of 
each child support order and a record of payments and arrearages. In 
the case of orders that included income withholding but are not in the 
system, the LGU also has to keep records of payments.  
 
v. 
Streamlining and uniformity of procedures. Upon the authority of the 
Secretary, LGUs are required to follow the procedures as set forth by the 
program. These actions may include ordering genetic testing; issuing 
subpoenas; requiring public and private employers and other entities to 
provide information on employment, compensation, and benefits or be 
subject to penalties; obtaining access to vital statistics, national and local 
tax records, real and personal property records, records of occupational 
and professional licenses, business records, employment security and 
public assistance records, motor vehicle records, correction records, 
customer records of utilities and cable TV companies pursuant to an 
administrative subpoena, and records of financial institutions; directing 
the obligor to make payments to the family or order income withholding 
cases; securing assets to satisfy arrearages, including the seizure of lump 
sum payments, judgements and settlements; and increasing the monthly 
support due to make payments on arrearages.  
 
vi. 
Implementation of the NCSP upon eventual transfer of core functions 
to the local governments. By virtue of Mandanas Ruling (Supreme 
Court, 2018), it is critical that the core functions of NCSP are devolved 
to the local governments beginning 2022 or as mandated by the 
government. Upon its finality, DILG is mandated to work with DSWD 
in its development and implementation of a transition plan as well as a 
capacity development program to prepare the local governments.  
 
 
5. Role of the Department of Education (DepEd) 
 
DepEd is required to help improve the level of awareness and education of 
the young population by including themes/topics related to responsible 
parenthood, rights of the child (e.g., those covered in UN CRC, RA 7610, 
RA 9262, etc.), and other relevant laws in the appropriate school curricula. 
 
6. Role of the Department of Health (DoH) 
 
DOH is required to mandate and implement hospital-based procedures in 
support of the NCSP in both public and private hospitals. Such procedures 
must include a hospital-based system for the voluntary acknowledgement 
of paternity focusing on the period immediately before or after the birth of 
a child. Qualified/authorized public hospitals are also mandated to provide 
free services in establishing paternity in child support cases.  
 


 
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7. Role of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE and            
employers) 
 
i. 
Wage/salary/professional fee withholding. DoLE must require 
employers to send information on new employees to the centralized 
Register within twenty-two (22) working days or thirty (30) days of the 
date of hire; employers that report electronically could file twice per 
month. LGUs have to routinely match the new hire information, which 
has to be entered into the Register within five (5) working days. In the 
case of matches, within two (2) working days of entry of data in the 
Registry, employers have to be notified of the amount to be withheld 
and where to send the money. Within three (3) working days, new 
employee information have to be reported by LGUs to the National 
Directory of New Hires. LGUs are required to have laws clarifying that 
child support orders not subject to income withholding are to 
immediately become subject to income withholding without a hearing if 
arrearages occur. Guidelines on how employers are to accomplish 
income withholding in inter-LGU cases shall be issued by the NCSP. 
Employers have to remit withheld income to the NCSP Disbursement 
Unit or custodian parent (as applicable) within seven (7) days of the 
normal date of payment to the employee.  
 
ii. 
Work and training demonstration programs for non-custodial parents.  
 
DoLE should allow needy custodial and non-custodial parents to 
participate in any of its job opportunity, education, and skills training 
program in coordination and cooperation with relevant organizations 
such as the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and Technical 
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). 
 
8.  
Role of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) 
 
 
 
The CSC shall comply with this Act by implementing wide information 
 
 
dissemination and issuance of orders to Human Resource Managers of 
 
 
all government offices to comply with salary/wage deduction scheme 
 
 
non-custodian parents.  
 
9.  
Role of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) 
 
The BIR may collect child support arrearages out of income tax refunds 
otherwise due to non-custodial parents. An income tax refund offset is 
not permissible if the relevant child had reached the age of majority, 
even if the arrearages accrued while the child was still a minor, unless 
the child (now adult) had a current support order and is disabled, as 
defined by relevant laws. The BIR offset could be used for child support 
as included in the support order. 
 
10.  
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is required to support the NCSP by 
working with banks and lending institutions and the Credit Information 
Corporation regarding periodic monitoring and reporting of the names 
of debtor parents who have child support overdue payments. Parents 
who failed to pay child support are ineligible for personal and 
consumers loans. 
 
11.  
Role of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) 
 
i. 
Sharing of information. Authorized agencies shall have access to the 
motor vehicle and law enforcement locator systems of all LGUs. This 
Act allows authorized agencies to use such information in 
establishing percentage; setting; modifying or enforcing support 
orders; and enforcing custody or visitations orders. 
 
ii. 
Suspension of licenses. The government, through the LTO, shall 
exercise authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of 
driver’s licenses of individuals owing overdue support or failing, 
after receiving appropriate notice, to comply with subpoenas or 
warrants relating to paternity or child support proceedings.  
 
12.  
Role of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) 
 
i. 
Withholding or non-issuance of passports. If the DFA receives a 
certification by DSWD or family court in accordance with the 
requirements of this Act that an individual owed arrearages of child 
support, it shall refuse to issue a passport to such individual, and 
may revoke, restrict, or limit a passport issued previously to such 
individual. The individual concerned is afforded notice of such 
determination and the consequences thereof, and an opportunity to 
contest the determination.  
 
ii. 
International support enforcement. The government, through the 
DFA Secretary, is authorized to declare any foreign country (or a 
political subdivision thereof) to be a foreign reciprocating country if 
the foreign country has established, or undertakes to establish, 
procedures for the establishment and enforcement of duties of 
support owed to obligees who are residents of the Philippines, and 
such procedures are substantially in conformity with the standards 
prescribed in their own country.  
 
 
 
Support enforcement procedures of a foreign country which may be the 
subject of a declaration pursuant to this Act may include the following 
elements: (i) foreign country (or political subdivision thereof) has in 
effect procedures, available to residents of the Philippines; (ii) for 
establishment of paternity, and for establishment of orders of support 


 
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children and custodial parents, including procedures for collection and 
appropriate distribution of support payments under such orders.  
 
13.  
Role of Other Relevant Government Agencies 
 
Other government agencies are mandated to comply with the provision 
of this Act. These include: 
 
i. 
Philippine Statistics Authority - which shall provide full support to 
the implementation of the NCSP by integrating relevant data and 
profiles through which the government can track individuals with 
child support cases. This can be done through but not limited to the 
Philippine Identification System Act as provided for by Republic Act 
11055. 
 
ii. 
National Economic and Development Authority - which shall 
provide full support to the implementation of the NCSP by assisting 
DSWD in establishing a child support schedule subject to the 
country’s economic indices and income classification as provided for 
in this Act.  
 
iii. 
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Securities and 
Exchange Commission (SEC) - which shall provide full support to 
the implementation of the NCSP by withholding the issuance of 
business permits or business registration for individuals, with 
pending child support cases; 
 
iv. 
Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) - which shall provide 
full support to the implementation of the NCSP through issuance of 
a Hold Departure Order for a departing traveler who has pending 
child support case; 
 
v. 
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) - which shall provide full 
support to the implementation of the NCSP particularly but not 
limited through its Violence Against Women and Children Desk and 
in coordination with the Department of Justice. It shall also work 
with CSC, DILG, DOJ and PNP in establishing and enforcing 
standards and procedures to ensure against program fraud and 
abuses. 
 
vi. 
Philippine National Police (PNP) - which shall provide full support 
to the implementation of the NCSP particularly but not limited 
through its Women and Children Protection Center and in 
coordination with DILG. It shall work with CSC, DILG, DOJ and 
PNP in establishing and enforcing standards and procedures to 
ensure against program fraud and abuses. 
 


 
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vii. 
Insurance Commission - which shall provide full support to the 
implementation of the NCSP by ensuring that every child of 
individuals with child support cases shall not experience 
discrimination when it comes to insurance coverage including but 
not limited to health insurance availments; 
 
viii. 
Credit Information Corporation - which is mandated to provide full 
support to the implementation of the NCSP particularly by working 
with banks and lending institutions through its database of credit 
profiles, which could in turn be used in evaluating and declining 
loan applications of individuals with child support cases. 
 
ix. 
Commission of Higher Education and Technical Education and 
Skills Development Authority - which is mandated to provide full 
support to the implementation of the NCSP through the 
development of an adult education system where qualified 
individuals - whether custodian or non-custodian parents - shall be 
assisted in accessing quality tertiary, higher education, and technical 
education at zero or minimal costs. 
 
x. 
Other relevant government agencies - DSWD shall have authority to 
enlist the support of other agencies as provided for in this Section.  
 
 
 
ARTICLE V 
VIOLATION AND PENALTIES 
 
SECTION 15. Willful Failures to Pay Child Support. - Any person who 
willfully fails to pay child support, if such an obligation has remained unpaid (for two 
(2) months or has an outstanding amount due to thirty thousand pesos (Php 30,000.00) 
or more, shall be liable. When the offender is a Filipino living overseas, qualifying 
penalties as provided for in inter-country agreements shall be implemented. 
Probation may be granted to a first offender. For succeeding offenses, the penalty is 
imprisonment of not less than two (2) years and not more than four (4) years and a 
fine of not less than One Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 100,000.00) or not more than 
Three Hundred Thousand (Php 300,000.00) at the discretion of the court.  
 
SECTION 16. Other violations. - The penalty of imprisonment ranging from 
one (1) day to twelve (12) years and/or a fine not less than One Hundred Thousand 
Pesos (Php 100,000.00), but not more than Three Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 
300,000.00) at the discretion of the court shall be imposed on any person who shall 
commit any of the following acts: 
 
a. obtaining confidential information through coercion, undue influence, 
fraud, improper material inducement, or other similar acts; 
 


 
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b. non-compliance with the procedures and safeguards provided for in this 
Act including but not limited to refusal of employers to remit the amounts 
withheld as child support; or  
 
c. subjecting or exposing any child his/her custodial parent to danger, abuse, 
or exploitation. 
 
 
Any person who shall cause the fictitious registration of the birth of a child 
under the name(s) of a person(s) who is not his/her biological parent(s) shall be guilty 
of simulation of birth, and shall be punished by prison mayor in its medium period 
and fine not less than Fifty Thousand Pesos (Php 50,000.00), but not exceeding Two 
Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 200,000.00) 
 
 
Any physician, midwife or nurse or hospital personnel who, in violation of 
his/her oath of office, shall cooperate in the execution of the above-mentioned crime 
shall suffer the penalties herein prescribed as well as the penalty of permanent 
disqualification from the practice of profession following relevant prescriptions of the 
law and governing authorities (e.g., Professional Regulation Commission). 
 
 
Any person who shall violate established regulations relating to the 
confidentiality and integrity of records, documents, and communications of adoption 
applications, cases, and processes shall suffer the penalty of imprisonment ranging 
from one (1) year and one (1) day to two (2) years, and/or a fine of not less than 
Twenty Thousand Pesos (Php 20,000.00) but not more than One Hundred Thousand 
Pesos (Php 100,000.00), at the discretion of the court.  
 
 
Any government official, employee or functionary who shall be found guilty 
of violating any of the provision of this Act, or who shall conspire with private 
individuals shall, in addition to the above-prescibed penalties, be penalized in 
accordance with existing civil service laws, rules and regulations: Provided, That upon 
the filing of a case, either administrative or criminal, said government official, 
employee, or functionary concerned shall automatically be suspended until the 
resolution of the case. 
 
 
ARTICLE VI 
FINAL PROVISIONS 
 
 
SEC. 17. Information Dissemination. - The DSWD, in coordination with the 
relevant organizations such as the Department of the Interior and Local Government 
(DILG), the DepEd, DOJ, DOH, CHED, Philippine Information Agency, and Council 
for the Welfare of Children (CWC) shall disseminate information regarding this Act 
and its implementation to the public. 
 
 
SEC. 18. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary, after due 
consultation with participating organizations as well as other agencies such as the 
Department of Budget and Management, National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine 
National Police, Office of the Solicitor General, and relevant civil society 


 
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organization/s, shall formulate the necessary Implementing Rules and Regulations 
and operating guidelines to make the provisions of this Act operative.  
 
 
SEC. 19. Appropriations. - Such sum as may be necessary for the 
implementation of the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General 
Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter. 
  
 
SEC. 20. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, letter of instruction, executive 
issuances, resolutions, orders or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the 
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly. 
 
 
SEC. 21. Saving Clause. - Nothing in this Act shall affect any right of an adoptee 
acquired by judicial proceedings or otherwise before the commencement of this Act. 
 
 
SEC. 22. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part of this Act is declared 
unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining parts or provisions not affected shall 
remain in full force and effort.  
 
 
SEC. 23. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.  
 
 
Approved,