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De Castro vs. De Castro

REINEL ANTHONY B. DE CASTRO, Petitioner, versus ANNABELLE ASSIDAO-DE CASTRO, Respondent.

G.R. No. 160172 | 2008-02-13

D E C I S I O N

Tinga, J.:

This is a petition for review of the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals in CA-GR CV. No. 69166,[2] declaring that (1) Reianna Tricia A. De Castro is the legitimate child of the petitioner; and (2) that the marriage between petitioner and respondent is valid until properly nullified by a competent court in a proceeding instituted for that purpose.

The facts of the case, as culled from the records, follow.

Petitioner and respondent met and became sweethearts in 1991. They planned to get married, thus they applied for a marriage license with the Office of the Civil Registrar of Pasig City in September 1994. They had...