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Leouel Santos, Sr. vs. Court of Appeals

LEOUEL SANTOS, SR., petitioner-appellant, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, and SPOUSES LEOPOLDO and OFELIA BEDIA, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. 113054 | 1995-03-16

D E C I S I O N 

ROMERO, J.: 

In this petition for review, we are asked to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals 1 granting custody of six-year old Leouel Santos, Jr. to his maternal grandparents and not to his father, Santos, Sr. What is sought is a decision which should definitively settle the matter of the care, custody and control of the boy. 

Happily, unlike King Solomon, we need not merely rely on a "wise and understanding heart," for there is man's law to guide us and that is, the Family Code. 

The antecedent facts giving rise to the case at bench are as follows: 

Petitioner Leouel Santos, Sr., an army...