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Belen Jove Lagrimas Vs. Tito Lagrimas 095 Phil 113

BELEN JOVE LAGRIMAS, represented by her mother, PONCIANA JOVE as Guardian Ad-Litem, plaintiffs-appellants, vs. TITO LAGRIMAS, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-6462 | 1954-05-28

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

Represented by her mother Ponciana Jove as guardian ad litem, Belen Jove Lagrimas, seven years old, sued Tito Lagrimas for support, in the court of First Instance of Samar, in June 1947.

Her complaint alleged that from September 1926 up to the year 1940 defendant lived with Ponciana Jove as her common-law husband, and as fruit of such cohabitation she was born in November 1939; that for one year defendant supported her by delivering thirty pesos every month to her mother Ponciana; that defendant stopped giving support in 1940 when he found another woman; that Ponciana was poor and sickly; that defendant was...