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Ligaya Gapusan-Chua vs. Court of Appeals 185 SCRA 160

LIGAYA GAPUSAN-CHUA, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and PROSPERO PARCON, respondents.

G.R. No. 46746 | 1990-03-15

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 


NARVASA, J.: 

Felisa Gapusan Parcon died intestate and without legitimate issue on April 6, 1966 in Bacolod City. Neither her surviving spouse, Prospero Parcon, nor her other known relatives - three (3) sisters and a nephew - made any move to settle her estate judicially. 

It was Ligaya Gapusan-Chua, claiming to be an acknowledged natural daughter of Felisa Gapusan Parcon, who instituted judicial proceedings for the settlement of the latter's estate. About a year and eight months after Felisa's demise, or on January 15, 1968, Ligaya filed with the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental a...