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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Arbolarios were illegitimate children and therefore could not inherit from their alleged half-sister Purificacion Arbolario. While the lower court found that the Arbolarios were Purificacion's half-siblings, the Court of Appeals determined they were illegitimate based on the petitioners' failure to prove the marriage between their parents Juan Arbolario and Francisca Malvas. As illegitimate relatives, the Arbolarios were barred from inheriting intestate under the Civil Code. The Court also found issues with the dates listed in the 1951 Declaration of Heirship that was used as evidence of their legitimacy. The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals' ruling.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Arbolarios were illegitimate children and therefore could not inherit from their alleged half-sister Purificacion Arbolario. While the lower court found that the Arbolarios were Purificacion's half-siblings, the Court of Appeals determined they were illegitimate based on the petitioners' failure to prove the marriage between their parents Juan Arbolario and Francisca Malvas. As illegitimate relatives, the Arbolarios were barred from inheriting intestate under the Civil Code. The Court also found issues with the dates listed in the 1951 Declaration of Heirship that was used as evidence of their legitimacy. The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals' ruling.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Arbolarios were illegitimate children and therefore could not inherit from their alleged half-sister Purificacion Arbolario. While the lower court found that the Arbolarios were Purificacion's half-siblings, the Court of Appeals determined they were illegitimate based on the petitioners' failure to prove the marriage between their parents Juan Arbolario and Francisca Malvas. As illegitimate relatives, the Arbolarios were barred from inheriting intestate under the Civil Code. The Court also found issues with the dates listed in the 1951 Declaration of Heirship that was used as evidence of their legitimacy. The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals' ruling.

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    Arbolario V CA (Digest)

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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Arbolarios were illegitimate children and therefore could not inherit from their alleged half-sister Purificacion Arbolario. While the lower court found that the Arbolarios were Purificacion's half-siblings, the Court of Appeals determined they were illegitimate based on the petitioners' failure to prove the marriage between their parents Juan Arbolario and Francisca Malvas. As illegitimate relatives, the Arbolarios were barred from inheriting intestate under the Civil Code. The Court also found issues with the dates listed in the 1951 Declaration of Heirship that was used as evidence of their legitimacy. The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals' ruling.

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    ARBOLARIO v CA (G.R. No. 129163; April 22, 2003; J.

    Panganiban) FACTS: The original owners of the controverted lot, spouses Anselmo Baloyo and Macaria Lirazan, had 5 children. Everyone mentioned is dead. The first child, Agueda Colinco, was survived by her two children, namely, Antonio Colinco and Irene Colinco (respondent); Antonio Colinco predeceased his three daughters, respondents Ruth, Orpha, and Goldelina, all surnamed Colinco. The second child, Catalina Baloyo, was married to Juan Arbolario and their union was blessed with the birth of only one child, Purificacion Arbolario, who, in 1985, died a spinster and without issue. Juan Arbolario, consorted with another woman by the name of Francisca Malvas and from this cohabitation petitioners Voltaire Arbolario, Lucena Arbolario Taala, Fe Arbolario, Exaltacion Arbolario, and Carlos Arbolario (referred to hereinafter as Arbolarios) were born. All the foregoing petitioners were born well before the year 1951. In 1946, the third child, Eduardo Baloyo, sold his entire interest in the lot to his sister, Agueda (first child), by virtue of a notarized document. In 1951, a notarized declaration of heirship was executed by and between Agueda, Catalina, Gaudencia, and their brothers Eduardo and Julian, who extrajudicially declared themselves to be the only heirs of the late spouses Anselmo Baloyo and Macaria Lirazan. The fourth child, Gaudencia Baloyo, conveyed her interest in the said lot in favor of her two nieces, Irene Colinco to one-half (1/2) and Purificacion Arbolario to the other half. Purificacion Arbolario was then allowed to take possession of a portion of the disputed parcel until her death sometime in 1984 or 1985. Respondents Irene Colinco, Ruth Colinco, Orpha Colinco, and Goldelina Colinco, believing themselves to be the only surviving heirs of Anselmo Baloyo and Macaria Lirazan, executed a Declaration of Heirship and Partition Agreement, dated May 8, 1987 where they adjudicated upon themselves their proportionate or ideal shares: Irene Colinco, to one-half (1/2); while the surviving daughters of her (Irenes) late brother Antonio, namely Ruth, Orpha, and Goldelina Colinco, to share in equal, ideal proportions to the remaining half (1/2). On October 2, 1987, the Colincos filed a case against Spouses Rosalita Rodriguez Salhay and Carlito Salhay, seeking to recover possession of a portion of the aforesaid lot occupied by respondent spouses (Salhays hereinafter) since 1970. The Salhays alleged in their defense that they have been the lawful lessees of the late Purificacion Arbolario since 1971 up to 1978; and that said spouses allegedly purchased the disputed portion of Lot from the deceased lessor sometime in September 1978. On May 9, 1988 before the case was tried the Arbolarios and spouses Carlito Salhay and Rosalita Rodriguez Salhay (all respondents in the case) filed another case [f]or Cancellation of Title with Damages. The Arbolarios, joined by the Salhays, contend that the Declaration of Heirship and Partition Agreement executed by the Colincos was defective and thus voidable as they (Arbolarios) were excluded therein. The Arbolarios claim that they succeeded intestate to the inheritance of their alleged half-sister, Purificacion Arbolario; and, as forced heirs, they should be included in the distribution of the aforesaid lot. (Relevant) ISSUE: (1) WoN Arbolarios are illegitimate children HELD: (1) YES, they are illegitimate.** There is no solid basis for the argument of petitioners that Juan Arbolarios marriage to Francisca Malvas was valid. It does not follow that just because his first wife has died, a man is already conclusively married to the woman who bore his children. A marriage certificate or other generally accepted proof is necessary to establish the marriage as an undisputable fact. Since they failed to prove the fact (or even the presumption) of marriage between their parents, Juan Arbolario and Francisca Malvas; hence, they cannot invoke a presumption of legitimacy in their favor. Paternity or filiation, or the lack of it, is a relationship that must be judicially established.

    NOTES: LOWER COURT RULINGS: o RTC: Arbolarios were the brothers and the sisters of the deceased Purificacion Arbolario, while the Colincos were her cousins and nieces. The Colincos could not inherit from her, because she had half-brothers and half-sisters (CC, Article 1009). Their 1987 Declaration of Heirship and Partition Agreement was made in bad faith, because they knew all along the existence of, and their relationship with, the Arbolarios. The Salhays, on the other hand, had no document to prove their acquisition and possession of a portion of the disputed lot. o CA: Arbolarios are illegitimate. Illegitimate children are barred by Article 992 of the Civil Code from inheriting intestate from the legitimate children and relatives of their father or mother. As the illegitimate siblings of the late Purificacion Arbolario, petitioners cannot conveniently undermine the legal limitations by insisting that they were treated as half-brothers and half-sisters by the deceased. **(other reasons for illegitimacy, seemed less important): A review of the 1951 Declaration reveals that the year of Catalinas death was intercalated. The first two numbers (1 and 9) and the last digit (3) are legible; but the third digit has been written over to make it look like a 0. Further, the paragraph quoted by petitioners should show a chronological progression in the heirs years of death: Agueda died in 1940 and Eduardo in 1947. Hence, if Catalina had indeed died in 1903, why then was her name written after Aguedas and not before it? Moreover, the document, being in Spanish, requires an of ficial translation. We cannot readily accept the English translation proffered by petitioners, since respondents did not agree to its correctness. Besides, it consisted of only a paragraph of the whole document. OTHER ISSUES IN THE CASE: o WoN CA committed a serious error when it disregarded the testimony that the Salhays had purchased the portion of the lot they had been occupying since 1970; SC says NO, though the sale was not expressly assigned as an error in their Brief, respondents (as petitioners in the CA) still assailed the existence of the sale o WoN CA overstepped its bounds when it ruled that since respondents did not raise the issue of partition on appeal, the RTC had no jurisdiction to divide the disputed lot; SC says NO, the purpose of partition is to put an end to co-ownership. It seeks a severance of the individual interests of coowners, vesting in each of them a sole estate in a specific property and a right to enjoy the allotted estate without supervision or interference.

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