JURISDICTION

I. CIVIL CASES METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, etc. REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS

EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL 1. Actions involving personal property, whose value does 1. Action is incapable of pecuniary estimation.
NOT exceed P300,000 or in Metro Manila the amount
does NOT exceed P400,000 2. Title to or possession of real property or any interest
NOTE: The adjusted therein, the assessed value EXCEEDS P20,000 or
jurisdictional amount is 2. Demand for Money NOT exceeding P300,000 or in P50,000 in Metro Manila
based on Sec. 5 of R.A. Metro Manila P400,000
7691, this year being the 3. Admiralty and maritime cases where demand or
2nd 5-year period NOTE: Exclusive of interest, damages of whatever claim EXCEEDS P300,000 or P400,000 in Metro
mentioned therein. kind, attorney’s fees, litigation expenses, and costs Manila
(Code:IDALEC), the amount of which must be
specifically alleged but the filing fees thereon shall be 4. Matters of Probate (testate & intestate) where gross
paid. value of estate EXCEEDS P300,000 or P400,000 in
Metro Manila
3. Probate proceedings (testate or intestate) where the
gross value of the estate does NOT exceed P300,000 5. Family Courts now have exclusive original jurisdiction
or in Metro Manila the value does NOT exceed (RA 8369) over:
P400,000
Petitions for:
4. Actions involving title to or possession of real property, a. Guardianship, custody of children, habeas corpus
or any interest therein where the assessed value does in relation to the latter;
NOT exceed P20,000 or in Metro Manila P50,000. b. Petitions for adoption of children and the
revocation thereof;
5. Provisional remedies in principal actions w/in their c. Annulment and declaration of nullity of marriage,
jurisdiction matter relating to marital status and property
relating to husband & wife or those living
6. Inclusion and exclusion of voters (BP 881, Sec.138) together under different status or agreement;
d. Support and/or acknowledgment;
7. Admiralty and maritime cases where demand or claim e. Summary judicial proceedings under the Family
DOES NOT EXCEED P300,000 or in Metro Manila Code;
P400,000. f. Declaration of Status of children, voluntary
commitment of children, matter relating to
NOTE: Exclusive of interest, damages of whatever kind, parental authority and other cases cognizable
attorney’s fees, litigation expenses, and costs under PD 603, EO 56 (series of 1996) and other
(Code:IDALEC), the amount of which must be related laws;
specifically alleged but the filing fees thereon shall be g. Violations of RA 7610, otherwise known as the
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paid. “Special Protection of Children Against Child

Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act” as
amended by RA 7658; and
h. Cases of domestic violence against women and
8. Those covered by the Rules on Summary Procedure:
children
a. Forcible entry and Unlawful Detainer (FEUD)
o with jurisdiction to resolve issue of
ownership to determine ONLY the issue of Special Provisional Remedies:
possession, a. In cases of violence among the family members
o irrespective of the amount of damages or living in the same domicile or household, the
unpaid rentals sought to be recovered. Family Court may issue a restraining order
Where attorney’s fees are awarded, the same shall against the accused or defendant upon verified
NOT exceed P20,000. application by the complainant or the victim for
relief from abuse;
b. Other civil cases, EXCEPT probate proceedings, b. The court may order the temporary custody of
where the total amount of the plaintiff’s claim does children in all civil actions for their custody,
NOT exceed P100,000 or P200,000 in Metro Manila, support pendente lite, including deduction from
exclusive of interests and costs (as amended by the salary, and use of conjugal home and other
A.M. No. 02-11-09-SC, effective November 25, properties in all civil actions for support.
2002).
6. Cases NOT w/in exclusive jurisdiction of any court,
tribunal, person or body exercising judicial or quasi-
judicial functions.

7. Civil actions and special proceedings falling w/in the

exclusive original of Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Court and of Court of Agrarian Relations as now
provided by law.

8. All other cases where demand EXCLUSIVE of IDALEC

or the value of the property in controversy EXCEEDS
P200,000 or P400,000 in Metro Manila

9. Under Sec. 5.2 of the Securities and Regulations Code

to hear and decide:
a. Cases involving
devices or schemes employed by or any acts
of the board of directors, business
associates, its officers or partnership,
amounting to fraud and misrepresentation
 which may be detrimental to the interest of
the public and/ot of the stockholders,
partners, members of associations or
organizations registered with the SEC
b. Controversies
arising out of intra-corporate or partnership
relations
c. Controversies in the
elections or appointments of directors,
trustees, officers or managers of such
corporations, partnerships or associations
Petitions of corporations, partnerships or associations to
be declared in the state of suspension of payments in
cases where the entity possesses sufficient property to
cover all its debts but foresees the impossibility of
meeting them when they fall due or in cases where the
entity has no sufficient assets to cover its liabilities but
is under the management of a Rehabilitation Receiver or
Management Committee
CONCURRENT With RTC – none With SC – Actions affecting ambassadors, public
ministers and consuls

With SC and CA – Issuance of writs of certiorari,

prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, injunction against
lower courts.

With MTC, etc. – NONE

With Insurance Commissioner – Claims NOT

exceeding P100T

DELEGATED May be assigned by the SC to hear

cadastral or land registration cases where there is no
controversy over the land or in case of contested lands,
the value does NOT exceed P100,000

SPECIAL Petition for Habeas Corpus OR application for bail in SC may designate certain branches of RTC to try
criminal cases in the absence of all RTC judges in the exclusively criminal cases, juvenile and domestic
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province or city relations cases, agrarian cases, urban land reform cases
not falling w/in the jurisdiction of any quasi-judicial body
and other special cases in the interest of justice.

APPELLATE All cases decided by the lower courts in their respective

territorial jurisdiction.

CIVIL CASES SUPREME COURT COURT OF APPEALS

EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus against: Actions for annulment of judgment of the RTC.
a. CA
b. COMELEC
c. COA
d. Sec. of DOLE/Sandiganbayan

CONCURRENT With Court of Appeals (CA) With Supreme Court (SC)

a. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus a. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus
(CPM) against RTC; (CPM) against RTC;
b. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus b. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus
against the NLRC (however, this should be filed against the NLRC (however, this should be filed
NOTE: While the Rules with the CA first – see St. Martin Funeral Home vs. with the CA first – see St. Martin Funeral Home vs.
provide for concurrent CA, G. R. 130866 September 16, 1998) CA, G. R. 130866 September 16, 1998)
jurisdiction among the c. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus c. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus
RTC, CA, and SC, the against quasi-judicial agencies (like CSC, CBAA, against quasi-judicial agencies (like CSC, CBAA,
same is still subject to CTA, etc.) (however, this should be filed with the CA CTA, etc.) (however, this should be filed with the
the principle of – see Section 4, Rule 65) CA – see Section 4, Rule 65)
HIERARCHY OF COURTS,
pursuant to Sec 4 of Rule
65.

With the CA and RTC With the SC and RTC

a. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus a. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus
against inferior courts and other bodies; against inferior courts and other bodies; and
b. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto. b. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto.

With RTC
Actions against ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls