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LEONARDO A. VILLALON AND ERLINDA TALDE-VILLALON, PETITIONERS, VS. AMELIA CHAN, RESPONDENT.

LEONARDO A. VILLALON AND ERLINDA TALDE-VILLALON, PETITIONERS, VS. AMELIA CHAN, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 196508 | 2014-09-24

SECOND DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

BRION, J.:

We review in this petition for review on certiorari1 the July 30, 2010 decision2 and April 8, 2011 resolution3 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 93807.  The CA annulled and set aside the March 3, 2006 resolution4 and September 5, 2006 order[5] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 74, Antipolo City, which disallowed the private offended party’s counsel from participating in the prosecution of the petitioners for bigamy and dismissed the bigamy case filed against the petitioners, respectively.

Factual Antecedents
 
On May 6, 1954, the respondent...