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Based on Article 55 of the Family Code of the Philippines:

Art. 55. A petition for legal separation may be filed on any of the following grounds:

    (1) Repeated physical violence or grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner;

    (2) Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the petitioner to change religious or political affiliation;

    (3) Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such corruption or inducement;

    (4) Final judgment sentencing the respondent to imprisonment of more than six years, even if pardoned;

    (5) Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the respondent;

    (6) Lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent;

    (7) Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines or abroad;

    ( Sexual infidelity or perversion;

    (9) Attempt by the respondent against the life of the petitioner; or

    (10) Abandonment of petitioner by respondent without justifiable cause for more than one year.

For purposes of this Article, the term "child" shall include a child by nature or by adoption. (9a)

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