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Jose Rivero, et al. vs CA, et al

JOSE RIVERO, JESSIE RIVERO and AMALIA RIVERO, Petitioners, versus COURT OF APPEALS, MARY JANE DY CHIAO*- DE GUZMAN, and BENITO DY CHIAO, JR., represented by his uncle HENRY S. DY CHIAO, Respondents.

G.R. No. 141273 | 2005-05-17

D E C I S I O N 


CALLEJO, SR., J.: 

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 44261 annulling the decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Naga City, Branch 19, in Civil Case No. RTC'96-3612. 

The Antecedents 

On August 27, 1996, Benedick Arevalo filed a Complaint[2] against Mary Jane Dy Chiao-De Guzman, Benito Dy Chiao, Jr., and Benson Dy Chiao, in the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Naga City, for compulsory recognition as the illegitimate child of their father, Benito Dy Chiao, Sr., and for the administration and partition of his estate as he had...