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Baptista vs. Castaneda

JUSTO BAPTISTA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. CONSUELO CASTANEDA, defendant-appellee.

A.C. No. 12 | 1946-04-06

D E C I S I O N

OZAETA, J:
The parties in this case, now over sixty years of age, contracted holy matrimony in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, on February 18, 1914. Since then until about the first day of March 1942 they lived together as husband and wife without any issue.
On March 25, 1943, pursuant to the authority conferred upon him by the Commander in Chief of the Imperial Japanese Forces in the Philippines and with the approval of the latter, the Chairman of the Philippine Executive Commission promulgated a "New Divorce Law" (Executive Order No. 141), which repealed Act No. 2710 of the Philippine Legislature and provided eleven grounds for divorce,...