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[1/6] Maria Rosario de Santos vs. Adoracion G. Angeles, et al.

[1/6] MARIA ROSARIO DE SANTOS, petitioner, vs. HON. ADORACION G. ANGELES, JUDGE, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF CALOOCAN CITY, BRANCH 121 and CONCHITA TALAG DE SANTOS, respondents.

G.R. No. 105619 | 1995-12-12

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J p:

Can natural children by legal fiction be legitimized?

There being no explicit provision of law in point, the Court is called upon to cast illumination in a gray area even as it fills up unintentional interstices in the fabric of Civil Law with overlays of philosophical, historical and sociological strands. For an understanding of how the issue arose, we now proceed to unravel the pertinent factual background.

On February 7, 1941, Dr. Antonio de Santos married Sofia Bona, which union was blessed with a daughter, herein petitioner Maria Rosario de Santos. After some time, their relationship became strained to...