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Eutiquio Marquino, Et Al. Vs. Intermediate Appellate Court, Et Al.

EUTIQUIO MARQUINO and MARIA TERENAL-MARQUINO Survived by: LUZ T. MARQUINO, ANA T. MARQUINO and EVA T. MARQUINO, petitioners, vs. THE HON. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, FIRST CIVIL CASES DIVISION, BIBIANA ROMANO-PAGADORA, Survived by: PEDRO PAGADORA, EMY R. PAGADORA, JUNE R. PAGADORA, EDGAR R. PAGADORA, MAY R. PAGADORA, MAGO R. PAGADORA, ARDEN R. PAGADORA, and MARS R. PAGADORA, respondents.

G.R. No. 72078 | 1994-06-27

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.:

For resolution are the following issues: (1) the effect of the death of the natural child during the pendency of her action for recognition; and (2) the effect of the death of the putative parent also during the pendency of the case.

The facts are as follows:

Respondent Bibiana Roman-Pagador filed Civil Case No. 5197, an action for Judicial Declaration of Filiation, Annulment of Partition, Support, and Damages against petitioner Eutiquio Marquino on January 10, 1971 before the then Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental. Also impleaded as defendants, were Maria Terenal-Marquino, wife of Eutiquio...