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Ann Brigitt Leonardo As Represented By Her Parents Gloria Leonardo And Eddie Fernandez Vs. CA, Hon. Tomas Africa, et al, Respondents.

ANN BRIGITT LEONARDO as represented by her parents GLORIA LEONARDO and EDDIE FERNANDEZ, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. TOMAS AFRICA, et al., respondents.

G.R. No. 125329 | 2003-09-10

D E C I S I O N

CARPIO-MORALES, J.:

Being assailed in the present petition for review on certiorari is the Court of Appeals Decision of March 11, 1996 and Resolution of May 27, 1996.

Petitioner Ann Brigitt Leonardo was on July 14, 1993 born in Manila to common-law-spouses Eddie B. Fernandez and Gloria C. Leonardo.[1] In her birth certificate, her given surname is that of her mother, Leonardo.[2]

As petitioner's parents later wanted her to carry the surname of her father, the latter executed an affidavit[3] of July 29, 1994 to this effect and wrote a letter[4] of August 1, 1994 to the Local Civil Registrar of Manila requesting for the...