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Leuterio vs. Court of Appeals and Leuterio

MARIA ALICIA LEUTERIO, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and HEIRS OF BENITO LEUTERIO, respondents. Sumulong Law Offices for petitioner. Alberto, Salazar & Associates for private respondents.

G.R. No. 84647 | 1991-05-23

D E C I S I O N

NARVASA, J.:

Petitioner Maria Alicia Leuterio claims that she is the natural daughter of Ana Maglanque and Pablo Leuterio, having been conceived at the time when her parents were not disqualified by any impediment to marry each other; that the evidence presented by her before the Probate Court after her natural father's death, was adequate basis for a judicial declaration of the compulsory recognition of her status as said Pablo Leuterio's natural child; and that, therefore, she must be deemed to have been legitimated by the marriage of her parents some nine years after her birth. However, neither the Trial Court nor...