G.R. No. L-29300, 21 June 1978, 83 SCRA 675 FACTS: Florentino Gallanosa executed a will in 1938 when he was 80 years old. He owned 61 parcels of and at that time. He died in [...]

G.R. No. 168156, 6 December 2006, 510 SCRA 496 FACTS: The subject lots denominated as Lot 5427 and Lot 992 situated in Tugegarao City belonged to the spouses Pedro Cuntapay and Leona Bunagan. The spouses [...]

G.R. Nos. 140371-72, 27 November 2006, 508 SCRA 172 FACTS: On September 1988, private respondents filed a petition for the settlement of the intestate estate of the late Segundo. Petitioners opposed assailing among others that [...]

G.R. No. L-48840, 29 December 1943, 74:479 FACTS: It appears that on August 26, 1931, Victorino L. Guevara executed a will, apparently with all the formalities of the law. On September 27, 1933, he died. [...]

G.R. Nos. 83843-44, 5 April 1990, 184 SCRA 170 FACTS: The deceased Melecio Labrador, left behind him a parcel of land which was partitioned among his nine heirs through a holographic will. Sagrado, therefore, one [...]

G.R. No. 145545, 30 June 2008, 556 SCRA 569 FACTS: Herein petitioner is the first cousin of decedent Margarita S. Mayora while respondent is the decedent’s companion since 1929. Margarita died single on April 27, [...]

G.R. No. 103554, 28 May 1993, 222 SCRA 781 FACTS: On December 5, 1978, Mateo Caballero, a widower without any children and already in the twilight years of his life, executed a last will and [...]

G.R. No. 74695, 14 September 1993, 226 SCRA 348 FACTS: The testator did not read the final draft of the will himself. Instead, private respondent, as the lawyer who drafted the 8-paged document, read the [...]

G.R. No. L-26808, 28 March 1969, 32 SCRA 489 FACTS: Gliceria del Rosario executed 2 wills, one in June 1956, written in Spanish, a language she knew and spoke. The other will was executed in [...]

G.R. No. 174144, 17 April 2007, 521 SCRA 39 FACTS: Felisa Buenaventura, mother of petitioner Bella Guerrero and respondent Resurreccion Bihis, died. Guerrero filed for probate in the RTC QC. Bihis opposed her elder sister’s [...]

G.R. No. L-32213, 26 November 1973, 54 SCRA 31 FACTS: The CFI of Cebu allowed the probate of the will of Valenti Cruz. Petitioner Agapita Cruz, spouse of the decedent, however, opposed the allowance of [...]

G.R. No. 157451, 16 December 2005, 478 SCRA 247 FACTS: Two years after the arrival of Placido from the United States and at the age of 80 he wed Josefina who was then 28 years [...]