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FIRST DIVISION
DECISION
MA.
CRISTINA
TORRES
G.R. No. 181174
BRAZA, PAOLO JOSEF T.
CARPIO MORALES, J.:
BRAZA and JANELLE ANN T.
Present:
Petitioner Ma. Cristina Torres (Ma. Cristina)
BRAZA,
and Pablo Sicad Braza, Jr. (Pablo), also known as
Petitioners,
PUNO, C.J., Chairperson,
[1]
CARPIO MORALES,Pablito Sicad Braza, were married on January 4,
1978. The union bore Ma. Cristinas co-petitioners
LEONARDO-DE CASTRO,
BERSAMIN, and Paolo Josef[2]and Janelle Ann[3] on May 8, 1978 and
- versus VILLARAMA, JR., June 7, 1983, respectively, and Gian Carlo [4] on June
4, 1980.
Pablo died[5] on April 15, 2002 in a vehicular
accident in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.
THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR
OF HIMAMAYLAN CITY,
During the wake following the repatriation of
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, minor
his remains to the Philippines, respondent Lucille
PATRICK ALVIN TITULAR
Titular (Lucille) began introducing her co-respondent
BRAZA, represented by LEON
TITULAR, CECILIA TITULAR
Promulgated:
minor Patrick Alvin Titular Braza (Patrick) as her and
and LUCILLE C. TITULAR,
December 4, 2009Pablo's son. Ma. Cristina thereupon made inquiries in
Respondents.
the course of which she obtained Patrick's birth
certificate[6]from the Local Civil Registrar of
SO ORDERED.
CONCHITA CARPIO MORALES
Associate Justice
WE CONCUR:
REYNATO S. PUNO
Chief Justice
Chairperson
LUCAS P. BERSAMIN
REYNATO S. PUNO
Chief Justice
[1]
CERTIFICATION
Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the
Constitution, I certify that the conclusions in the
above decision had been reached in consultation
before the case was assigned to the writer of the
opinion of the Courts Division.
[16]
Republic v. Benemerito, G.R. No. 146963. March 15, 2004, 425 SCRA
488.
[17]
See p. 11 of petition, rollo, p. 21.
[18]
Art. 171.
The heirs of the husband may impugn the
filiation of the child within the period prescribed in the
preceding article only in the following cases: