This document is an act amending the jurisdiction of Philippine trial courts. It expands the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts to include civil cases involving real property valued up to 400,000 pesos. It also expands their jurisdiction to include admiralty and maritime actions where the demand does not exceed 2 million pesos. The Supreme Court is given delegated authority to adjust the jurisdictional amounts of first and second level courts. The provisions will apply prospectively to civil cases filed after the effective date.
This document is an act amending the jurisdiction of Philippine trial courts. It expands the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts to include civil cases involving real property valued up to 400,000 pesos. It also expands their jurisdiction to include admiralty and maritime actions where the demand does not exceed 2 million pesos. The Supreme Court is given delegated authority to adjust the jurisdictional amounts of first and second level courts. The provisions will apply prospectively to civil cases filed after the effective date.
This document is an act amending the jurisdiction of Philippine trial courts. It expands the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts to include civil cases involving real property valued up to 400,000 pesos. It also expands their jurisdiction to include admiralty and maritime actions where the demand does not exceed 2 million pesos. The Supreme Court is given delegated authority to adjust the jurisdictional amounts of first and second level courts. The provisions will apply prospectively to civil cases filed after the effective date.
This document is an act amending the jurisdiction of Philippine trial courts. It expands the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts to include civil cases involving real property valued up to 400,000 pesos. It also expands their jurisdiction to include admiralty and maritime actions where the demand does not exceed 2 million pesos. The Supreme Court is given delegated authority to adjust the jurisdictional amounts of first and second level courts. The provisions will apply prospectively to civil cases filed after the effective date.
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S. No.
1886 H. No. 6589
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Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh
day of July, two thousand twenty.
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[REPUBLIC AcT No. 115 76]
AN ACT FURTHER EXPANDING THE JURISDICTION OF THE METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL ----..- TRIAL COURTS IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL . COURTS, AND MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 129, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE JUDICIARY REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1980," AS AMENDED
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Section 19 of Batas Pambansa Blg. 129,
otherwise known as "The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980," as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows-: "Section 19. Jurisdiction of the Regional Trial Courts in Civil Cases. - Regional Trial Courts shall exercise exclusive original jurisdiction: "x X X 2 3
"(2) In all civil actions which involve the title determination of the filing fee·s: Provided, further, to, or possession of, real property, or any interest That where there are several claims or causes of therein, where the assessed value exceeds Four actions between the same or different parties, hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00), except for embodied in the same complaint, the _ amount of the forcible entry into and unlawful detainer of lands or demand shall be the totality of the claims in all the buildings, original jurisdiction over which is causes of action, irrespective of whether the causes conferred upon the Metropolitan Trial Courts, and of action arose out of the same or different Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial transactions; Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts; "x X X "(3) In all actions · in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the demand or claims exceeds "(3) Exclusive original jurisdiction in all civil Two million pesos (P2,000,000.00); actions which involve title to, or possession of, real property, or any interest therein where the assessed "(4) In all matters of probate, both testate and value of the property or any interest therein does not intestate, where the gross value of the estate exceeds exceed Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000.00) Two million pesos (P2,000,000.00); exclusive on interest, damages of whatever kind, attorney's fees, litigation expenses and costs: "x X X Provided, That in cases of land not declared for taxation purposes, the value of such property shall "(8) In all other cases in which the demand, be determined by the assessed value of the adjacent exclusive of interest, damages of whatever kind, lots. attorney's fees, litigation expenses and costs or the value of the property in controversy exceeds Two "(4) Exclusive original jurisdiction in million pesos (P2,000,000.00)." admiralty and maritime actions where the demand or claim does not exceed Two million pesos SEC. 2. Section 33 of the same law is hereby amended (P2,000,000.00)." to read as follows: SEC. 3; De,,egated Authority of the Supreme Court to "Section 33. Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Adjust the Jurisdictional Amounts for First and Second Level Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Courts. - The Supreme Court, unless otherwise provided by Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit law, without prejudice, however, on the part of the Congress Trial Courts in Civil Cases. - Metropolitan Trial to adjust th amounts when the circumstances so warrant, Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal may adjust the jurisdictional amount for first and second level Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts courts to: (1) reflect the extraordinary supervening inflation shall exercise: or deflation of currency; (2) reflect change in the land "(1) Exclusive original jurisdiction over civil valuation; or (3) maintain the proportion of caseload between actions and probate proceedings, testate and first and second level courts. intestate, including the grant of provisional remedies in proper cases, where the value of the personal SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act shall apply property, estate, or amount of the demand does not prospectively to all civil cases filed in the second level courts exceed Two million pesos (P2,000,000.00), exclusive and first level courts from the date of its effectivity thereof. of interest, damages of whatever kind, attorney's fees, litigation expenses, and costs, the amount of SEC. 5. Separability Clause. - If any provision of which must be specifically alleged: Provided, That this Act is declared unconstitutional, the same shall not interest, damages of whatever kind, attorney's fees, affect the validity and effectivity of the other provisions litigation expenses, and costs shall be included in the thereof. 4
SEC. 6. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, and orders
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall be considered amended or modified accordingly. SEC. 7. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,
LO This Act was passed by the Senate of the Philippines as Senate Bill No. 1886 on February 8, 2021, and adopted by the House of Representatives as an amendment to House Bill No. 6589 on May 19, 2021.
