Kris Aquino wants to study law

TV host and actress Kris Aquino, the younger sister of President Benigno Aquino, said she wanted to study law, a five-year course, but revealed her five-year-old son wants her to continue working, a TV report said. 

“I really want to study. I have been telling [my lawyer] Attorney Frank Chavez that when I started reading about [Philippine] laws, I thought I should have been a lawyer. That’s one of my options,” Aquino said in an interview on ABS CBN, a major TV network. 

“After what I went through recently, I realized the importance of having good laws in the Philippines,” said the young Aquino, who studied English Literature in her undergraduate course at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1992. 

“When I told my two boys that I would not be working anymore, that maybe we’re not gonna be as rich; that we have to save money, my youngest son said, ‘You work,’” said Aquino, who did not say if she would heed him. 

“I thought he would be happy when I told him, ‘I’ll stay with you, I’ll be with you,’” said Aquino.

Last week, she said she would resign from all her shows at ABS CBN. 

She and sons Joshua and James Yap Jr. went to Europe over the weekend after a lower trial court in Makati City junked her husband’s petition to bar her from leaving the country. 

She filed from the same court a request for a permanent protection order, after she was granted a temporary one-month period protection order on March 15, which prevented her former husband from getting near her, her sons and her household staff. 

Observers believed that she is quitting her job because she plans to run for an elected post in 2016. 

Yap. 31, of San Miguel basketball team, and Aquino were civilly married in 2005 and separated in 2010. Their marriage was annulled in 2012.