Manila, Feb. 9 -- The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) urged an evidence-based review of local succession and property laws to better safeguard the inheritance rights of migrant Filipinos living abroad.

In a news release on Monday, the commission said Secretary Dante "Klink" Ang II made the call during a recent meeting with Filipino-American lawyer and retired United States Navy officer Sylvester Lee Salcedo, who cited mounting legal challenges faced by overseas Filipinos when asserting claims over family properties in the Philippines.

Ang said the initiative supports the CFO's mandate to preserve the political, cultural, and economic ties between the Filipino diaspora and their homeland, emphasizing that unresolved inheritance i...