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Rep. Of the Phil. Vs. Feliciano Belmonte

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. FELICIANO BELMONTE, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Baguio and Benguet and ANITA PO alias VERONICA PAO, assisted by her mother HELEN POA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-32600 | 1988-02-26

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

Can a petition for a change of name and the correction of certain entries in the civil registry be joined in the same proceeding? This is the issue posed in this petition for review of a decision of the Court of First Instance of Baguio and Benguet. 1

The record of the case discloses that on August 28, 1968, the herein private respondent Anita Po alias Veronica Pao, a resident of Baguio City, filed with the then Court of First Instance of Baguio and Benguet a Petition for the change of her name from Anita Po to Veronica Pao. 2 For this purpose, she also sought court permission to have her birth records...