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RP vs CA and Cynthia Vicencio

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and CYNTHIA VICENCIO, respondents.

G.R. No. 88202 | 1998-12-14

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 

QUISUMBING, J.: 

This is an appeal interposed by the Republic of the Philippines as represented by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), assailing the decision[1] of the Court of Appeals promulgated on April 28, 1989, which affirmed the decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 52, dated, August 31, 1987. The appealed decision granted private respondent Cynthia Vicencio's petition for change of surname, from "Vicencio" to "Yu". 

As found by the trial court, hereunder are the facts and circumstances of the case: 

"Petitioner's evidence is to the effect that she was born on...