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Victorino Simon vs Judge Alipio Aragon

VICTORINO SIMON, Complainant, versus JUDGE ALIPIO M. ARAGON, Municipal Circuit Trial Court, Respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-05-1576 [OCA-IPI No. 02-1323-MTJ] | 2005-02-03



FIRST DIVISION
DECISION

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

MTC and MCTC judges may act as Notaries Public ex officio in the notarization of documents connected only with the exercise of their official functions and duties.  They may not, as Notaries Public ex officio, undertake the preparation and acknowledgment of private documents, contracts and other acts of conveyances which bear no direct relation to the performance of their functions as judges.[1]

In a complaint[2] dated October 18, 2002, Victorino Simon charged respondent, Judge Alipio M. Aragon, the presiding judge of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court of San Pablo and Cabagan, Isabela, with...