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Uyguangco vs. Court of Appeals 178 SCRA 684

DOROTEA, VIRGILIO, APOLINARIO, JR., SULPICIO & DOMINADOR, all surnamed UYGUANGCO, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, Judge SENEN PENARANDA and GRACIANO BACJAO UYGUANGCO, respondents.

G.R. No. 76873 | 1989-10-26

FIRST DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
 
CRUZ, J.: 
 
The issue before the Court is not the status of the private respondent, who has been excluded from the family and inheritance of the petitioners. What we are asked to decide is whether he should be allowed to prove that he is an illegitimate child of his claimed father, who is already dead, in the absence of the documentary evidence required by the Civil Code. 
 
The trial court said he could and was sustained by the respondent Court of Appeals. 1 The latter court held that the trial judge had not committed any grave abuse of discretion or acted without...