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Vasco vs. Court of Appeals

ANTONIO VASCO, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, LEONOR INES LUCIANO, as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court, Quezon City; NICANOR SALAYSAY, as Sheriff for the Province of Rizal, and ANGELINA REYES Y BAJACAN, REYNALDO VASCO and LOLI

G.R. No. L-46763 | 1978-02-28

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This case is about the trial court's jurisdiction to execute pending appeal a judgment for support.

The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Quezon City in a decision dated October 5, 1976 found that Reynaldo Vasco and Lolita Vasco (born on April 8, 1952 and April 27, 1954, respectively) are illegitimate children of Antonio Vasco and Angelina Reyes. It ordered Antonio to pay them the sum of P200 as monthly allowance for support, beginning October, 1976 plus P500 as attorney's fees (Civil Case No. QE-00888, Reyes vs. Vasco).

Antonio Vasco appealed to the Court of Appeals from that decision. He perfected...