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    Angelina Castro filed a petition seeking to annul her marriage to Edwin Cardenas. She claimed that no marriage license was issued prior to their marriage, as evidenced by a certification from the local civil registrar stating they could not locate a marriage license. The trial court denied the petition, finding the certification insufficient to prove no license was issued. The Court of Appeals reversed, declaring the marriage null and void. The Supreme Court affirmed, finding the certification from the civil registrar, unaccompanied by circumstances of suspicion, sufficiently proved no marriage license was issued.

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    Angelina Castro filed a petition seeking to annul her marriage to Edwin Cardenas. She claimed that no marriage license was issued prior to their marriage, as evidenced by a certification from the local civil registrar stating they could not locate a marriage license. The trial court denied the petition, finding the certification insufficient to prove no license was issued. The Court of Appeals reversed, declaring the marriage null and void. The Supreme Court affirmed, finding the certification from the civil registrar, unaccompanied by circumstances of suspicion, sufficiently proved no marriage license was issued.

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    Angelina Castro filed a petition seeking to annul her marriage to Edwin Cardenas. She claimed that no marriage license was issued prior to their marriage, as evidenced by a certification from the local civil registrar stating they could not locate a marriage license. The trial court denied the petition, finding the certification insufficient to prove no license was issued. The Court of Appeals reversed, declaring the marriage null and void. The Supreme Court affirmed, finding the certification from the civil registrar, unaccompanied by circumstances of suspicion, sufficiently proved no marriage license was issued.

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    Parungao, Abesamis, Eleazar & Pulgar Law Offices For Private Respondent

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    Angelina Castro filed a petition seeking to annul her marriage to Edwin Cardenas. She claimed that no marriage license was issued prior to their marriage, as evidenced by a certification from the local civil registrar stating they could not locate a marriage license. The trial court denied the petition, finding the certification insufficient to prove no license was issued. The Court of Appeals reversed, declaring the marriage null and void. The Supreme Court affirmed, finding the certification from the civil registrar, unaccompanied by circumstances of suspicion, sufficiently proved no marriage license was issued.

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    G.R. No.

    103047 September 2, 1994


    REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner,
    vs.
    COURT OF APPEALS AND ANGELINA M. CASTRO, respondents.
    Parungao, Abesamis, Eleazar & Pulgar Law Offices for private respondent.

    FACTS:

    Angelina Castro, with her parents unaware, contracted a civil marriage with Edwin Cardenas.  They did
    not immediately live together, and it was only upon Castro found out that she was pregnant that they
    decided to live together wherein the said cohabitation lasted for only 4 months.  Thereafter, they parted
    ways and Castro gave birth that was adopted by her brother with the consent of Cardenas. 

    The baby was brought in the US and in Castro’s earnest desire to follow her daughter wanted to put in
    order her marital status before leaving for US.  She filed a petition seeking a declaration for the nullity of
    her marriage.  Her lawyer then found out that there was no marriage license issued prior to the
    celebration of their marriage proven by the certification issued by the Civil Registrar of Pasig.

    ISSUE: Whether the documentary and testimonial evidence resorted to by Castro is sufficient to


    establish that no marriage license was issued to the parties prior to the solemnization of their marriage.

    HELD:

    The trial court denied the petition.  It held that the above certification was inadequate to establish the
    alleged non-issuance of a marriage license prior to the celebration of the marriage between the parties.
    It ruled that the "inability of the certifying official to locate the marriage license is not conclusive to
    show that there was no marriage license issued."

    Unsatisfied with the decision, Castro appealed to respondent appellate court. She insisted that the
    certification from the local civil registrar sufficiently established the absence of a marriage license.

    As stated earlier, respondent appellate court reversed the Decision of the trial court.  It declared the
    marriage between the contracting parties null and void and directed the Civil Registrar of Pasig to cancel
    the subject marriage contract.

    The SC affirmed the decision of CA that the certification issued by the Civil Registrar unaccompanied by
    any circumstances of suspicion sufficiently prove that the office did not issue a marriage license to the
    contracting parties.  Albeit the fact that the testimony of Castro is not supported by any other witnesses
    is not a ground to deny her petition because of the peculiar circumstances of her case.   Furthermore,
    Cardenas was duly served with notice of the proceedings, which he chose to ignore.

    Under the circumstances of the case, the documentary and testimonial evidence presented by private
    respondent Castro sufficiently established the absence of the subject marriage license.

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