Llaneta Ferrer vs. Agrava 57 SCRA 29

TERESITA LLANETA (known also as TERESITA LLANETA FERRER and TERESITA FERRER), petitioner, vs. The Honorable CORAZON JULIANO AGRAVA, as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Manila, respondent.

G.R. No. L-32054 | 1974-05-15

Surnames, use of surname

D E C I S I O N

CASTRO, J:

From the denial by the respondent Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Manila, in its special proceeding H-00237, of her petition for change of name, Teresita Llaneta has come to this Court on appeal by certiorari.

Teresita's mother, one Atanacia Llaneta, was once married to Serafin Ferrer with whom she had but one child named Victoriano Ferrer. In 1942 Serafin Ferrer died, and about four years later Atanacia had relations with another man out of which Teresita was born. Shortly after Teresita's birth, Atanacia brought her and Victoriano to Manila where all of them lived with Atanacia's mother-in-law, Victoria...