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Wainwright Versoza vs. Versoza 26 SCRA 78

MARGARET ANN WAINRIGHT VERSOZA, JOSE MA. VERSOZA, JR., CHARLES JOHN VERSOZA and VIRGINIA FELICE VERSOZA, plaintiffs-appellants, vs. JOSE MA. VERSOZA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-25609 | 1968-11-27

D E C I S I O N

SANCHEZ, J.:


The question before us, framed in legal setting, is the correctness of the lower court's order dismissing, without prejudice, the complaint seeking, inter alia, future support upon the ground that there is no allegation therein that earnest efforts toward a compromise were made but that the same have failed, in infringement of Article 222 of the Civil Code.

With this problem in mind, we turn to the pivotal facts.

On March 4, 1964, a verified complaint, later amended, for P1,500.00 monthly support, support in arrears, and damages, and custody of children, with a petition for support pendente lite 1 was lodged...