Indigence

Some justice courts already hold ability-to-pay hearings for debtors who claim indigence.

If the clerk finds that an applicant meets the threshold for indigence, some fees may be waived.

While the men strive to lift themselves from indigence, they soon find themselves intertwined with supernatural entities, leading to catastrophic results.

They immediately sought help from the Public Attorney’s Office but the barangay did not issue a certificate of indigence, a requirement to avail of their free legal assistance.

But this pious man had compassion on them, and determining that they should remain no longer in indigence, he caused them all to be assembled, put on board vessels, and sunk in the sea.

For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.