SUPREME COURT COURT OF APPEALS REGIONAL TRIAL COURT SHARIAH DISTRICT COURTS

Exclusive Original Jurisdiction

Petitions for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus Actions for the annulment of the 1. All civil actions in which the subject of litigation is
against the following: judgments of RTC incapable of pecuniary estimation;
1. Court of Appeals 2. All civil actions which involve title to, or possession of
2. Commission on Elections real property or an interest therein where the assessed
3. Commission on Audit value of such property involved exceeds P20,000
4. Sandiganbayan outside Metro Manila or P50,000 within Metro Manila
5. Court of Tax Appeals except cases of forcible entry and unlawful detainer;
6. CSC
7. OMBUDSMAN IN CRIM CASES
3. All actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction when
the demand or claim exceeds P300,000 outside Metro
Manila or P400,000 within Metro Manila (2010 BEQ)
4. All matters of probate (testate and intestate), where the
gross value
Text of the estate exceeds P300,000 outside
Metro ManilaTextor P400,000 within Metro Manila
5. In all actions involving the contract of marriage in areas
where there are no Family Courts (sec 5 and sec 7 of
RA 8369)
6. All cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any
court, tribunal, person or body exercising judicial or
quasi-judicial functions
1. All cases involving custody, guardianship,
legitimacy, paternity and filiation arising under the
Code
2. All cases involving disposition, distribution
and settlement of the estate of the deceased
Muslims, probate of wills, issuance of letters of
administration or appointment of administrators or
executors regardless of the nature or the aggregate
value of the property
3. Petitions for the declaration of absence and
death and for the cancellation or correction of entries
in the Muslim Registries mentioned in Title VI of
Book Two of the Code
4. All actions arising from customary contracts
in which the parties are Muslims, if they have not
specified which shall govern their relations
5. All petitions for mandamus, prohibition,
injunction, certiorari, habeas corpus, and all other
auxiliary writs and processes in aid of its
appellate jurisdiction

- this jurisdiction is often described as the ‘general

jurisdiction’ of the RTC, making it a court of
‘general jurisdiction’

7. All civil actions and special proceedings falling within

the exclusive original jurisdiction of the Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court and of the Court of Agrarian
Relations

8. All other cases in which the demand or the value of the

property in controversy eceeds P300,000 outside
Metro Manila or P400,000 within Metro Manila,
exclusive of interest, damages of whatever kind,
attorney’s fees, litigation expenses and costs

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 Original Jurisdiction Original and Concurrent Jurisdictions
with all Civil Courts
1. Actions involving ambassadors, public 1. Petition for certiorari, 1. Actions involving ambassadors, public ministers 1. Petitions by Muslims for the constitution of a
ministers and consuls; prohibition, mandamus, quo and consuls; family home, change of name and commitment
2. Petition for certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, warranto, habeas corpus; 2. Petition for certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo of an insane person to an asylum;
quo warranto, habeas corpus; 2. Writ of amparo; warranto, habeas corpus;
3. Petition for habeas corpus; 3. Habeas data; 3. Petitions for writ of amparo; 2. All other personal and real actions not mentioned
4. Petition for writ of amparo; 4. Writ of continuing 4. Petition for habeas data; in paragraph #4 of the enumerated exclusive
5. Writ of continuing mandamus; mandamus; 5. Petition for writ of continuing mandamus original jurisdiction of the SDC, wherein the
6. Writ of kalikasan; 5. Writ of kalikasan; parties involved are Muslims except those for
6. Petition for freeze order on forcible entry and unlawful detainer, which shall
any monetary instrument, fall under the exclusive original jurisdiction of the
property, or proceeds Municipal Trial Court;
relating to or involving any
lawful activity as defined All special civil actions for interpleader or declaratory
under sec. 3 (j) of RA 9160 relief wherein the parties are Muslims or the property
as amended by RA 9194 involved belongs exclusively to Muslims
Appellate Jurisdiction
Judgment, final orders and resolutions against the 1. Judgments, resolutions, orders Decisions and final orders against: 1. Cases tried in the Shariah Circuit Courts within
following: or awards of: 1. Metropolitan Trial Court; their territorial jurisdiction
1. Court of Appeals A. RTC: 2. Municipal Trial Court; 2. Decide every case appealed to it on the basis of
2. Sandiganbayan - in the exercise of its original 3. Municipal Circuit Trial Court the evidence and records transmitted as well as
3. Regional Trial Court on pure questions of jurisdiction such memoranda, briefs or oral arguments as
law and in cases involving: - in the exercise of its appellate the parties may submit
jurisdiction
a. constitutionality or validity of a law or 2. Appeal from MTC/MCTC in the
treaty, international or executive exercise of their delegated
agreement, presidential decree, jurisdiction
proclamation, order, instruction, ordinance 3. Appeal from CSC and other
or regulation bodies under rule 43
b. legality of a tax impost, assessment or 4. Appeals from National
toll, or penalty in relation thereto Commission on Indigenous
c. cases in which jurisdiction of the court People (NCIP)
is in issue 5. Appeals from the Office of the
Ombudsman in administrative
4. Court of Tax Appeals en banc cases
5. Court of Appeals, sandiganbyan and a.
Regional Trial Court in petition for writ of
amparo;
6. Court of Appeals, sandiganbyan and
Regional Trial Court in petition for habeas
data
 Concurrent Jurisdiction
With CA, SB and RTC With the SC
1. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition,
Issuance of writs of certiorari, In actions affecting ambassadors, other public ministers
mandamus; prohibition, and mandamus against: and consuls
2. Quo warranto; 1. RTC
3. Habeas corpus; 2. CSC
4. Writ of amparo; 3. Central Board of Assessment
5. Habeas data; Appeals
6. Writ of kalikasan; 4. Other quasi-judicial bodies (rule
7. Writ of injunction 43)
5. NLRC
With CA With SC and RTC With SC and CA
Petitions for certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus Issuance of writs of certiorari, Petitions for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus, quo
against the following: prohibition, and mandamus, writs of warranto and habeas corpus against the lower courts
1. RTC habeas corpus against the following:
2. Civil Service Commission 1. Lower courts
3. Central Board of Assessment Appeals 2. Other bodies
4. NLRC
5. Other quasi-judicial agencies
With CA and RTC With SB, SC and RTC With SC, SB and CA
1. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition and 1. Writ of amparo; Writ of amparo and habeas corpus
mandamus against the lower courts and bodies 2. Writ of habeas data where
2. Petitions for quo warranto and habeas corpus the action involves public
Note: this jurisdiction is subject to the hierarchy of data or government office
courts (sec. 9 [1, 2[1], BP 129; Art VIII)
With RTC With MTC
Cases affecting ambassadors, public ministers, and Cases involving enforcement or violations of
consuls environmental and other related laws, rules and
regulations
Ancillary Jurisdiction Ancillary Jurisdiction
All provisional remedies All provisional remedies
Special Jurisdiction
1. Criminal cases;
2. Juvenile and domestic cases;
3. Agrarian cases;
4. Urban land reforms cases which do not fall under
the jurisdiction of quasi-judicial bodies and
agencies;
5. Such other special cases as the SC may
determine in the interest of a speedy and efficient
administration of justice

SHARIAH CIRCUIT COURTS FAMILY COURTS
1. Civil actions and 1. Petitions for guardianship,
proceedings between custody of children and habeas
parties who are Muslims or corpus involving children;
have been married in 2. Petitions for adoption for children
accordance with Art. 13 and the revocation thereof;
involving disputes relating 3. Complaints for annulment of
to: marriage, declaration of nullity of
marriage and those relating to
a. marriage; status and property relations of
b. divorce recognized husband and wife or those living
under this code; together under different status
c. bethrothal or breach and agreements, and petitions for
of contract of dissolution of conjugal
marriage; partnership of gains;
d. customary dower 4. Petitions for support and/or
(mahr); acknowledgment;
e. disposition and 5. Summary judicial proceedings
distribution of property brought under the provisions of
upon divorce; Executive Order No. 209,
f. maintenance and otherwise known as the “Family
support, and Code of the Philippines;”
consolatory gifts 6. Petitions for declaration of status
*mut’a); of children as abandoned,
g. restitution of marital dependent or neglected children,
gifts petitions for voluntary or
involuntary commitment of
2. Cases involving disputes children, the suspension,
relative to communal termination or restoration of
properties parental authority and other
cases cognizable under PD 603,
EO 56 (series of 1986) and other
related laws;
7. Petitions for the constitution of
the family home
8. Cases against minors cognizable
under the Dangerous Drugs Act.
As amended;
METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURT / COURT OF TAX APPEALS SANDIGANBAYAN
MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURT
Exclusive Original Jurisdiction
1. Actions where the value of the personal Tax collection cases involving final and Cases involving violations of:
property, estate or amount of the demand executor assessments for taxes, fees, 1. EO No. 1 (Creating the PCGG)
does not exceed P300,000 outside Metro charges and penalties: Provided, 2. EO No. 2 (Illegal Acquisition and
Manila or P400,000 outside Metro Manila** however, that collection cases where the Misappropriations of Ferdinand
principal amount of taxes and fees, Marcos, Imelda Marcos their close
2. Actions involving title to or possession of exclusive of charges and penalties, relatives, subordinates, business
real property or any interest therein where claimed is less than One million pesos associates, dummies, agents or
the value or amount of the property or shall be tried by the proper Municipal nominees)
interest does not exceed P20,000 outside Trial Court, Metropolitan Trial Court, and 3. EO No. 14 [Cases involving the ill-
Metro Manila or P50,000 in Metro Manila**; Regional Trial Court gotten wealth of the immediately
mentioned persons (Marcos and
1. Maritime claims where the demand or dummies)]
claim does not exceed P300,000 outside 4. EO No. 14-A (amendments to EO
Metro Manila or P400,000 within Metro No. 14) (Sec. 2, RA 7975 as
Manila**; amended by RA 8294)
2. Actions for claim of money where the
demand does not exceed P300,000
outside Metro Manila or P400,000 within
Metro Manila;
3. Actions and probate proceedings,
testate and intestate, where the value of
the property does not exceed P300,000
outside metro manila or P400,000 within
Metro Manila;
4. Inclusion or exclusion of voters;
5. Cases covered by the Rules on
Summary Procedures:
1. forcible entry
2. Other civil cases except probate
where the total amount of the
plaintiff’s claim does not exceed
P100,000 outside Metro Manila or
9. Violations of RA 7610 (Special P200,000 within Metro Manila**
Protection of Children Against
Child Abuse, Exploitation and 6. Cases covered by the Rules on
Discrimination Act) Small Claims
10. Cases of domestic violence
against:

a. Women – which are acts of

gender based violence that
results, or are likely to result in
physical, sexual or psychological
harm or suffering to women, and
other forms of physical abuse
such as battering or threats and
coercion which violate a woman’s
personhood, integrity and
freedom movement and

b. Children – which include the

commission of all forms of abuse,
neglect, cruelty, exploitation,
violence, and discrimination and
all other conditions prejudicial to
their development
Appellate Jurisdiction
1. Over appeals from the judgments, Final judgment, resolutions, or orders of
resolutions or orders of the RTC in RTC whether in the exercise of their own
tax collection cases originally original jurisdiction or their appellate
decided by them, in their respective jurisdiction
territorial jurisdiction
2. Over petitions for review of the
judgments, resolutions or orders of
the RTC in the exercise of their
appellate jurisdiction over tax
collection cases originally decided by
the Metropolitan Trial Court,
Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal
Circuit Trial Courts, in their
respective jurisdictions

With RTC
Cases involving enforcement or violations
of environmental and other related laws,
rules and regulations
Concurrent Jurisdiction
With CIR
1. Decisions of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue in cases involving
disputed assessments, refunds of
internal revenue taxes, fees or other
charges, penalties in relation thereto
or other matters arising under the
National Internal Revenue.
With SC
Petitions for certiorari, prohibition,
mandamus, habeas corpus, injunction and
other ancillary writs in aid of its appellate
jurisdiction, including quo warranto arising
in cases falling under EO No 1, 2, 14 and
14-A

2. Inactions of the Commissioner of

Internal Revenue in cases involving
disputed assessments, refunds of
internal revenue taxes, fees or other
charges, penalties in relation thereto
or other matters arising under the
National Internal Revenue Code or
other laws administered by the BIR,
where the NIRC provides a specific
period of action, in which case the
inaction shall be deemed a denial

Special Jurisdiction With RTC With SC, CA and RTC

Petition for habeas corpus in the absence
of all RTC judges in the province or city
Petitions for the issuance of writ of amparo
Decisions, orders or resolutions of the and writ of habeas data
RTC in local tax cases originally decided
or resolved by them in the exercise of
their original or appellate jurisdiction

Delegated Jurisdiction With Commissioner of Customs

Cadastral or land registration cases
covering lots where there:
1. is no controversy or opposition; or
contested but the value does not exceed
P100,000
Decisions in cases involving liability for
customs duties, fees or other money
charges, seizure, detention or release of
property affected, fines, forfeitures or
other penalties in relation thereto, or
other matters arising under the Customs
Law or other laws administered by the
Bureau of Customs
 With Central Board of Assessment
Appeals
Cases involving the assessment and
taxation of real property originally
decided by the provincial or city board of
assessment appeals
With Secretary of Finance
Customs cases elevated to him
automatically for review from decisions
of the Commissioner of Customs which
are adverse to the Government under
Sec. 2315 of the Tariff and Customs
Code
With Secretary of Trade and Industry
and the Secretary of Agriculture
Case of non-agricultural product,
commodity or article, and the Secretary
of Agriculture in the case of agricultural
profuct, commodity or article, involving
dumping and countervailing duties under
Secs. 301 and 302, respectively, of the
Tariff and Customs Code, and
safeguard measures under RA 8800,
where either party may appeal the
decision to impose or not to impose said
duties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS
To achieve an expeditious and inexpensive determination of
the cases defined to be governed by the Rules on Summary
Procedure
1. Metropolitan Trial Court
2. Municipal Trial Court in Cities
3. Municipal Trial Court
4. Municipal Circuit Trial Court
1. All cases of forcible entry and unlawful detainer
irrespective of the amount of damages or unpaid
rentals sought to be recovered. Where attorney’s fees
are awarded, the same shall not exceed P20,000; and
2. All other civil cases, except probate proceedings,
where the total amount of plaintiff’s claim does not
exceed P100,000 outside Metro Manila or P200,000
within Metro Manila, exclusive of interests and costs
SMALL CLAIMS
Purpose
To provide a simpler and more inexpensive and expeditious
means of settling disputes involving purely money claims than
the regular civil process
Where to File
1. Metropolitan Trial Court
2. Municipal Trial Court in Cities
3. Municipal Trial Court
4. Municipal Circuit Trial Court
Civil Cases Covered
Small claims cases – civil claims which are exclusively for the
payment or reimbursement of a sum of money not exceeding
P100,000 exclusive of interest and costs, either:
1. Purely civil in nature where the claim or relief prayed
for by the plaintiff is solely for payment or
reimbursement of sum of money; or
2. The civil aspect of criminal actions, either filed before
the institution of the criminal action, or reserved upon
the filing of the criminal action in court, pursuant to
Rule 111 of the Revised Rules of Criminal Procedure
KATARUNGANG PAMBARANGAY LAW
To effect an amicable settlement of disputes among family
and barangay members at the barangay level without
judicial recourse and consequently help relieve the courts
of docket congestion (Preamble of PD 1508) (1999 BEQ)
1. For disputes between residents of the same
barangay; the dispute must be brought for settlement
in the said barangay
2. For disputes between residents of different but
adjoining barangays and the parties agree to submit
their differences to amicable settlement: within the
same city or municipality where any of the
respondents reside at the election of the complainant
3. For disputes involving real property or any interest
when the parties thereto agree to submit their
differences to amicable settlement by an appropriate
lupon therein shall be brought in the barangay where
the real property or larger portion thereof is situated
4. For disputes arising at the workplace where the
contending parties are employed or at the institution
where such parties are enrolled for study shall be
brought in the barangay where such workplace or
institution is located
All disputes involving parties who actually resides in the
same city or municipality may be the subject of the
proceedings for amicable settlement in the barangay.