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Teresita Sagala-Eslao vs. Court of Appeals

TERESITA SAGALA-ESLAO, petitioner vs. COURT OF APPEALS and MARIA PAZ CORDERO-OUYE, respondents.

G.R. No. 116773 | 1997-01-16

D E C I S I O N 

TORRES, JR., J.: 

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. 1 Indeed, parenthood is a riddle of no mean proportions except for its mission. Thus, a mother's concern for her child's custody is undying such is a mother's love. 

The right of the mother to the custody of her daughter is the issue in the case at bar. 

In this petition for review, Teresita Sagala-Eslao seeks the reversal of the Court of Appeals decision 2 dated March 25, 1994, which affirmed the trial court's judgment granting the petition of Maria Paz Cordero-Ouye to recover the...