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Engr. Gilbert Tumbokon Vs. Atty. Mariano R. Pefianco

ENGR. GILBERT TUMBOKON, Complainant, vs. ATTY. MARIANO R. PEFIANCO, Respondent.

A.C. No. 6116 | 2012-08-01

R E S O L U T I O N 

PERLAS-BERNABE, J.: 

Before the Court is an administrative complaint for disbarment filed by complainant Engr. Gilbert Tumbokon against respondent Atty. Mariano R. Pefianco for grave dishonesty, gross misconduct constituting deceit and grossly immoral conduct. 

In his Complaint,1 complainant narrated that respondent undertook to give him 20% commission, later reduced to 10%, of the attorney's fees the latter would receive in representing Spouses Amable and Rosalinda Yap (Sps. Yap), whom he referred, in an action for partition of the estate of the late Benjamin Yap (Civil Case No. 4986 before the Regional...