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Mangulabnan vs Intermediate Appellate Court (IAC) 185 SCRA 760

EDNA PADILLA MANGULABNAN as guardian ad litem for minor ALFIE ANGELO ACERO, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT AND AMBROCIO TAN CHEW ACERO, respondents.

G.R. No. 71994 | 1990-05-31


FIRST DIVISION


GANCAYCO, J.:

This is a case of an illegitimate child who was denied support pendente lite by the appellate court. The child is confused as to what he is supposed to do. Petitioner pictured a big man eating a small child which will not fail to repel and horrify all decent men. She contends that this very image readily forms itself in the mind when we consider this case.

Petitioner filed in the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City an action for actual, compensatory and moral damages and support for her child Alfie Angelo. Pending the litigation an application for support pendente lite was filed to which an opposition was filed...