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Eligia Batbatan vs. Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Pagadian, et al.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATES OF MINORS JORGE BATBATAN AND HIS SISTER DELIA BATBATAN, AND THE CORRESPONDING ENTRIES HEREOF IN THE CIVIL REGISTRY OF PAGADIAN, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, ELIGIA BATBATAN, petitioner-appellant, vs. OFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF PAGADIAN, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-33724 | 1982-11-29

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

Petitioner Eligia Batbatan is the mother of two children whose names were registered in the office of the local civil registrar of Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur as Jorge Batbatan Ang and Delia Batbatan Luy. The boy was born on September 8, 1959 while the girl was born on March 6, 1962. Both were born in Pagadian.

The surnames of the two children were taken from the name and the alias of their father, Ang Kiu Chuy alias Sioma Luy. Eligia Batbatan and Ang Kiu Chuy lived in a common-law relationship and were never married at least up to the time the former testified in court. According to the petitioner,...