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Pareja vs. Pareja 095 Phil 167

Intestate estate of deceased NATIVIDAD PAREJA, PAZ PAREJA, petitioner-appellee, vs. JULIO PAREJA, REGINA PAREJA, and JOSE PAREJA, oppositor-appellees, SOLEDAD PAREJA MARCIAL, oppositor-appellant.

G.R. No. L-5824 | 1954-05-31

D E C I S I O N


LABRADOR, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Sorsogon declaring Julio Pareja, Regina Pareja, Paz Pareja, and Jose Pareja, as well as Soledad Pareja Marcial, acknowledged natural children and heirs of the deceased Natividad Pareja. The appeal was certified to this court by the Court of Appeals on the ground that fundamental question involved is one of law and not of fact.

The record discloses that Natividad Pareja died on April 6, 1943. He and Eulogia Fernandez lived together as man and wife without being married, although both had no impediment to contract marriage, and out of their...