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Jessie Pisue?a vs Heirs of Petra Unating, Villar

JESSIE V. PISUE?A, petitioner, vs. HEIRS OF PETRA UNATING and AQUILINO VILLAR, Represented by Salvador Upod and Dolores Bautista, respondents.

G.R. No. 132803 | 1999-08-31

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

Real property acquired during marriage is presumed to be conjugal. Such prima facie presumption, however, can be overturned by a cadastral court's specific finding, which has long become final, that the lot in question was paraphernal in character. The title to the entire property shall pass by operation of law to the buyer once the seller acquires title over it by hereditary succession, even if at the time of the execution of the deed of sale, the seller owned only a portion of the property.

The Case

Before us is a Petition for Review on Certiorari seeking to set aside the February 26, 1997 Decision of...