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1) Nonato and Barrido acquired a house and lot during their marriage, which was later declared void. Nonato filed for partition but Barrido refused, claiming the property was sold to their children.
2) Under Article 147, property acquired during a void marriage is presumed obtained through joint efforts and is jointly owned in equal shares.
3) The court found the alleged deed of sale to the children invalid since it lacked notarization, so the property remained jointly owned by Nonato and Barrido subject to equitable partition.
1) Nonato and Barrido acquired a house and lot during their marriage, which was later declared void. Nonato filed for partition but Barrido refused, claiming the property was sold to their children.
2) Under Article 147, property acquired during a void marriage is presumed obtained through joint efforts and is jointly owned in equal shares.
3) The court found the alleged deed of sale to the children invalid since it lacked notarization, so the property remained jointly owned by Nonato and Barrido subject to equitable partition.
1) Nonato and Barrido acquired a house and lot during their marriage, which was later declared void. Nonato filed for partition but Barrido refused, claiming the property was sold to their children.
2) Under Article 147, property acquired during a void marriage is presumed obtained through joint efforts and is jointly owned in equal shares.
3) The court found the alleged deed of sale to the children invalid since it lacked notarization, so the property remained jointly owned by Nonato and Barrido subject to equitable partition.
NONATO, GR No. 176492, 2014-10-20 facie presumed to have been obtained through their joint efforts. Facts: The rules which are set up to govern the In the course of the marriage of respondent liquidation of either the absolute community or Leonardo V. Nonato and petitioner Marietta N. the conjugal partnership of gains, the property Barrido, they were able to acquire a property... regimes recognized for valid and voidable consisting of a house and lot. On marriages, are irrelevant to the liquidation of the March 15, 1996, their marriage was declared co-ownership that exists between common-law void on the ground of psychological incapacity. spouses or spouses of void marriages. Nonato asked Barrido for partition, but the latter Here, the former spouses both agree that they refused. acquired the subject property during the subsistence of their marriage. Thus, Nonato filed a Complaint for partition Thus, it shall be presumed to have been obtained Barrido claimed that the subject property had by their joint efforts, work or industry, and shall already been sold to their children. be jointly owned by them in equal shares. MTCC rendered a decision ordering the conjugal Barrido, however, claims that the ownership property adjudicated to the defendant Marietta over the property in question is already vested Nonato, the spouse with whom the majority of on their children, by virtue of a Deed of Sale. the common children choose to remain. But aside from the title to the property still being RTC reversed the ruling of the MTCC, It found registered in the names of the former spouses, that even though the MTCC aptly applied Article said document of sale does not bear a 129 of the Family Code, it nevertheless made a notarization of a notary public. reversible error in adjudicating the subject property to Barrido. It must be noted that without the notarial seal, a document remains to be private and cannot be The RTC order the parties : converted into a public document,making it (1) to equitably partition the house and lot inadmissible in evidence unless properly (2) to reimburse Joseph Raymund and Joseph authenticated. Leo Nonato of the amount advanced by Therefore, the subject property remains to be them in payment of the debts and owned in common by Nonato and Barrido, which obligation should be... divided in accordance with the rules (3) to deliver the presumptive legitimes of on co-ownership. Joseph Raymund and Joseph Leo Nonato pursuant to Article 51 of the Family Principles: Code... the CA affirmed the RTC Decision Art. 147. When a man and a woman who are Issues: capacitated to marry each other, live exclusively with each other as husband and wife without the Whether or not the lot is still conjugal after benefit of marriage or under a void marriage, being sold to the children. their wages and salaries shall be owned by them in equal shares and the property... acquired by both of them through their work or industry Ruling: shall be governed by the rules on co-ownership. The records reveal that Nonato and Barrido's The rules which are... set up to govern the marriage had been declared void for liquidation of either the absolute community or psychological incapacity under Article 36[10] of the conjugal partnership of gains, the property the Family Code. regimes recognized for valid and voidable During their marriage, however, the conjugal marriages, are irrelevant to the liquidation of the partnership regime governed their property co-ownership that exists between common-law relations. spouses or spouses of... void marriages.
Article 147 specifically covers the effects of void
marriages on the spouses' property relations. Under this property regime, property acquired by both spouses through their work and industry shall be governed by the rules on equal co- ownership.