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Virginia A. Leonor vs CA, et al.

VIRGINIA A. LEONOR, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. ROLINDO D. BELDIA, JR., as Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of San Carlos City, Branch 57, and MAURICIO D. LEONOR, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 112597 | 1996-04-02

PANGANIBAN, J.:


Is a judgment voiding a marriage and rendered by the regional trial court under Rule 108 of the Rules of Court valid and proper? May its validity be challenged by the wife in a petition for certiorari against the husband who abandoned her and who is now living abroad with a foreign woman?

These are the two main issues that were posed before this Court in this petition for review seeking a partial reversal of the Decision 1 of the Court of Appeals 2 promulgated September 30, 1993 in CA-G.R. SP No. 30606 and its Resolution 3 promulgated November 1993, which denied petitioner's motion for partial reconsideration of the...