LAND TITLE FOR FARM OR AGRICULTURAL LOT | FREE PATENT & JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION OF TITLE (RA 11573)

How to apply for land title for a farm lot or agricultural land in the Philippines? Do you own an untitled agricultural land and wonder how to have it titled or registered in your name? In this video, Your_Lawyer seeks to answer the following questions:

How to acquire a land title for an agricultural lot or farm lot?
Is it safe to buy a land without title in the Philippines? Can it be titled in the name of the buyer?
How to apply for agricultural free patent title?
How to apply for free patent title?
How to apply for free patent?
Can you register an untitled land that you inherited from your deceased parents under the Torrens system of land title or land registration ?
What are the qualifications for the registration or titling of an agricultural land in the Philippines?
Can I buy an untitled land and have it titled or registered in my name?
What are my rights as buyer of an untitled or unregistered land?
How do I know that the land that I bought can be titled or registered?
Who may apply for the registration or titling of an untitled or unregistered farm or agricultural land?
Can the buyer of an untitled land apply for agricultural free patent title?
Where should I file my application for the tile of the untitled land that I bought?
Is it safe to buy a land based on rights only and apply for land title later?
What is judicial confirmation of an imperfect or incomplete title?
How to apply for land title in the Philippines?

Paano magpatitulo ng lupa?
Paano ba patituluhan ang nabiling lupa na walang titulo?
Safe ba bumili ng lupang walang titulo? Maaari ba itong mapatituluhan ng bumili?
Safe ba bumili ng lupa base sa rights lang? Pwede ba itong mapatituluhan ng buyer?
Sino ang pwedeng mag apply for land title o titulo ng lupa?
Maaari bang mapatituluhan ang lupang minana ngunit walabg titulo?
Safe ba bumili ng lupa na may tax declaration lang? Maaari ba ito mapatituluhan ng bumili?

REPUBLIC ACT 11573

AN ACT IMPROVING THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS FOR IMPERFECT LAND TITLES, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 141, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE PUBLIC LAND ACT,” AND PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1529, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “PROPERTY REGISTRATION DECREE”

SOME SALIENT POINTS:

1. Any natural-born citizen of the Philippines who is not the owner of more than twelve (12) hectares of land, and who, for at least twenty (20) years prior to the filing of an application for agricultural free patent, has continuously occupied and cultivated, either personally or through a predecessor-in-interest, a tract or tracts of alienable and disposable agricultural public lands subject to disposition, and who shall have paid the real estate tax thereon shall be entitled, under the provisions of this Chapter, to have a free patent issued for such tract or tracts of such land not to exceed twelve (12( hectares.”

2. All applications for agricultural free patents shall be filed before the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). For provinces with no CENRO, the application shall be filed with the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO).

3. The following-described citizens of the Philippines, occupying lands of the public domain or claiming to own any such lands or an interest therein, but whose titles have perfected or completed, may file a petition at any time, whether personally or through their duly authorized representatives, in the Regional Trial Court of the province where the land is located, for confirmation of their claims and the issuance of a certificate of title to land not exceeding twelve (12) hectares:
“(a) Those who by themselves or through their predecessors-in-interest have been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation of alienable and disposable agricultural lands of the public domain, under a bona fide claim of ownership, for at least twenty (20) years immediately preceding the filing of the application for confirmation of title except when prevented by war or force majeure. They shall be conclusively presumed to have performed all the conditions essential to a Government grant and shall be entitled to a certificate of title under the provisions of this Chapter.
“(b) Those who have acquired ownership of private lands or abandoned riverbeds by right of accession or accretion under the provision of existing laws; and
“(c) Those who have acquired ownership of land in any other manner provided by law.”

3. For purposes of judicial confirmation of imperfect titles filed under Presidential Decree No. 1529, a duly signed certification by a duly designated DENR geodetic engineer that the land is part of alienable and disposable agricultural lands of the public domain is sufficient proof that the land is alienable.


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