Civil Law, 2020 Bar — Question III

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A wife was able to validly obtain a judicial declaration of her husband's presumptive death after he had disappeared for 10 years. She then remarried in accordance with law. To her surprise, a few years after her remarriage, her first husband reappeared. Does the first husband's reappearance automatically, without need of any further act, terminate the second marriage? Explain briefly.

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