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S. Selanova vs. A. Mendoza 64 SCRA 69

SATURNINO SELANOVA, complaint, vs. ALEJANDRO E. MENDOZA, City Judge Mandaue City, respondent.

A.M. No. 804-CJ | 1975-05-19

R E S O L U T I O N

AQUINO, J:

Saturnino Selavona charged Judge Alejandro E. Mendoza of Mandaue City with gross ignorance of the law for having prepared and ratified a document dated November 21, 1972, extrajudicially liquidating the conjugal partnership of the complainant and his wife, Avelina Ceniza. One condition of the liquidation was that either spouse (as the case may be) would withdraw the complaint for adultery or concubinage which each had filed against the other and that they waived their "right to prosecute each other for whatever acts of infidelity" either one would commit against the other.

Judge Mendoza in his comment on the...