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Raymond Pe Lim vs CA, Joanna Rose Pe Lim

RAYMOND PE LIM, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, JOANNA ROSE C. PE LIM, Minor represented by her Natural Mother and Guardian, MARIBEL CRUZ y TAYAG, respondents.

G.R. No. 112229 | 1997-03-18

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

All too often, immature men who allow their emotions to hold sway over their rational minds come to grief when their passions cool off, but not before inflicting irreparable psychic and spiritual damage on their victims and the fruits of their wanton acts. As they sow the proverbial "wild oats," they are heedless of the dire consequences they heap on their heads. When the inevitable confrontation explodes and they are helpless to extricate themselves from the messy situation arising from their wrongdoing, eventually they invoke the help of the courts as their final arbiter.

Before us is one of those cases...