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In Re: Antonio Ang Gui, Et Al. vs. Republic Of The Phil.

IN RE: PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAMES OF ANTONIO ANG GUI, ALBERTO BASAS ANG, ERNESTO BASAS ANG and EVELYN BASAS ANG, minors, VIRGINIA BASAS, petitioner-appellant, vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, oppositor-appellee.

G.R. No. L-23595 | 1968-02-20

D E C I S I O N 


CONCEPCION, C.J.: 

Appeal from a decision of the Court of Juvenile and Domestic Relations dismissing the petition of Virginia Basas - hereinafter referred to as appellant - for a change of names of the minors Antonio Ang Gui, Alberto Basas Ang, Ernesto Basas Ang and Evelyn Basas Ang. 

In her petition, appellant alleges that said minors are her children, born out of wedlock, on August 23, 1953, July 4, 1956, December 17, 1958 and May 22, 1960, respectively; that, although the children had been registered, in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Manila, under the names aforementioned, they were baptized as...