Rules Governing Venue

1. Disputes between persons actually residing in the same barangay shall be brought for amicable settlement before the lupon of said barangay.
2. Those involving actual residents of different barangays within the same city or municipality shall be brought in the barangay where the respondent or any of the respondents actually resides, at the election of the complainant.
3. All disputes involving real property or any interest therein shall be brought in the barangay where or the larger portion thereof is situated.
4. Those 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.

     Objection to venue shall be raised in the mountain proceedings before the Punong Barangay; otherwise, the same shall be deemed waived. Any legal question which may confront the Punong Barangay in resolving objections to venue herein referred to may be submitted to the Secretary of Justice or his duly designated representation whose ruling thereon shall be binding.