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Local Civil Registrar of Cebu City vs. Rafael T. Mendoza, et al.

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF CEBU CITY, petitioner, vs. HON. RAFAEL T. MENDOZA, Presiding Judge of the Court of First Instance of Cebu, Branch VI, and ANTOINETTE FAYE YU GAW, a minor represented by her father, PHILIP L. GAW, respondents.

G.R. No. L-59611 | 1983-07-20

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

On December 9, 1980, respondent minor Antoinette Faye Yu Gaw, represented by her father and guardian Philip L. Gaw, filed Civil Case No. R-19962 in the Court of First Instance of Cebu against the Republic of the Philippines, the Commission on Immigration and Deportation, the Local Civil Registrar of Cebu City, and the Perpetual Succour Hospital, for "judicial declaration of minor Antoinette Faye Yu Gaw as Filipino citizen and to change the citizenship of her father, Philip L. Gaw as Filipino citizen and to change the citizenship of her father, Philip L. Gaw and mother Marilou A. Yu as stated in her...