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Rosario R. Tuason vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

ROSARIO R. TUASON, petitioner vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, and EMILIO R. TUASON, respondents.

G.R. No. 124553 | 1997-02-10

D E C I S I O N


VITUG, J.:

Petitioner Rosario Tuason, mother of private respondent Emilio R. Tuason, filed, on 21 November 1991, with the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City a petition, docketed Case No. Q-91-10677, for the confinement and treatment of Emilio at the Medical City General Hospital on account of his being a drug dependent. The trial court, acting on the petition, directed the confinement of Emilio at the hospital. About three months later, or on 11 February 1992, Rosario initiated, in SP Proc. M- 3051, guardianship proceedings over the person and estate of her son. Corresponding letters of guardianship were forthwith...