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Ysasi vs. Fernandez 23 SCRA 1079

JUAN YSASI, petitioner, vs. HON. JOSE F. FERNANDEZ, as Presiding Judge of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental (Bacolod City, Branch V), MARIA ALDECOA DE YSASI and JON YSASI, respondents.

G.R. No. L-28593 | 1968-06-25

D E C I S I O N

SANCHEZ, J.:

The core of the problem we are called upon to resolve - simply stated - is whether a husband may be deprived of his powers of administration over conjugal partnership properties upon mere allegations of abuse of such powers.

This issue came about upon facts to be narrated below:

Juan Ysasi, petitioner, and Maria Aldecoa de Ysasi, one of the respondents, are husband and wife. Petitioner concedes for present purposes 1 that Hacienda Manucao-A, situate in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, is conjugal property of said spouses. 2 Since 1948, the spouses have been commuting between the Philippines and Spain where they also...