G.R. No. 231319 – Civil Law – Persons and Family Relations – Void Marriage under Art. 36; Property Regime is Co-ownership; How dissolved Remedial Law – Special Proceedings – Petition for Declaration of Absolute Nullity of Marriage – There is Forum Shopping if Separate Proceedings is Filed to partition Properties […]
Forum Shopping
G.R. No. 115849 – 322 Phil. 280 – 252 SCRA 259 – Legal Ethics – Forum Shopping Civil Law – Law on Sales – Contract of Sale – Parties to a Sales Contract Producers Bank (now called First Philippine International Bank), which has been under conservatorship since 1984, is the […]
G.R. NO. 139018 – 495 Phil. 188 – 455 SCRA 20 – Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – Certification of Non-forum Shopping Not Needed in Compulsory Counterclaim In 1996, Estherlita Agana filed a complaint for annulment of title against Serrano Enterprises. Said complaint involves a property which is allegedly sold […]
G.R. No. 140153 – 355 SCRA 658 – 407 Phil. 1007 – Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – Substantial Compliance with the Rule on Non-Forum Shopping Spouses Antonio and Alfreda Docena were allegedly lessees of Casiano Hombria of a parcel of land located in Eastern Samar. Hombria filed a complaint […]
G.R. NO. 157912 – 540 SCRA 111 – Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – Certification of Non-Forum Shopping Not Required in a Contingent Money Claim Special Proceedings – Settlement of Estate of Deceased Persons – Rule 88 – Contingent Claims Alice Sheker died and her estate was left under the […]
G.R. No. 149660 – Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – Certification Against Forum Shopping; Corporations must authorize lawyer to sign for and in behalf of the corporation In 1955, Sheryl Oabel began working for Maranaw Hotels in one of its hotel branches. In 1996, Maranaw Hotels contracted the services of […]
G.R. No. 155806 – 550 SCRA 562 – Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – When is the rule on the Certification of Non-Forum Shopping relaxed? In 1977, Tible & Tible Company, Inc. (TTCI) obtained a loan amounting to P1.5 million from Royal Savings and Loan Association. The loan matured however […]
G.R. No. 144755 – 459 SCRA 604 – Civil Law – Secured Transactions – Mortgage – Terms of Loan Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – Non-Forum Shopping – Certification – Signature of both spouses – Pro-Forma Complaint The spouses Estares secured a loan of P800k from Prominent Lending & Credit […]
G.R. No. 123686 – 318 SCRA 94 – Legal Ethics – Duties to the Court – Forum Shopping Arsenia Coronel incurred a P60k loan from the Rural Bank of Mabalacat. To secure the loan, she mortgaged her property. She was not able to pay the loan hence her property was […]
G.R. No. 131502 – 333 SCRA 390 – Mercantile Law – Intellectual Property – Law on Copyright – Forum Shopping – Litis Pendentia Remedial Law – Civil Procedure – Rule 36 – Judgment – Body vs Dispositive Portion Wilson Ong Ching Kian Chung is selling vermicelli (sotanghon) using his copyrighted […]