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Partosa-Jo vs. Court of Appeals and Ho Hang alias Jose Jo

PRIMA PARTOSA-JO, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and HO HANG (WITH ALIASES JOSE JO AND CONSING), respondents.

G.R. No. 82606 | 1992-12-18

FIRST DIVISION
D E C I S I O N 
 
CRUZ, J: 
 
The herein private respondent, Jose Jo, admits to having cohabited with three women and fathered fifteen children. The first of these women, the herein petitioner, claims to be his legal wife by whom he begot a daughter, Monina Jo. The other two women and their respective offspring are not parties to this case. 
 
In 1980, the petitioner filed a complaint against Jo for judicial separation of conjugal property, docketed as Civil Case No. 51, in addition to an earlier action for support, also against him and docketed as Civil Case No. 36, in the Regional Trial Court of...