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In Re : Tan vs. Civil Registration of Cebu City,et al.

IN RE: PETITION FOR THE CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE CIVIL-REGISTER. LEONCIO TAN, petitioner-appellee, vs. THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF CEBU CITY,. respondent. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. L-29214 | 1976-10-29

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

On April 29, 1967 Leoncio Tan filed in the Court of First Instance of Cebu a petition praying that the local civil registrar of Cebu City be ordered to correct his birth record by changing the name of his father from Ti Tiao Hack to Tan Tiao Hock and by changing his surname "Ti" to Tan (Spec. Proc. No. 2763-R).

The order setting the petition for hearing was published for three consecutive weeks in the Morning Times, a newspaper of general circulation in Cebu. The local civil registrar opposed the petition on the grounds that the corrections sought are not clerical in nature, that the petition is not the one...