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    #121 Montefalcon VS Vazquez

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    Dolores Montefalcon filed a complaint against Ronnie Vasquez seeking child support for their son Laurence. Vasquez signed Laurence's birth certificate acknowledging paternity but only provided minimal and irregular support. The court held that Vasquez is obligated to support Laurence since he acknowledged paternity by signing the birth certificate and did not deny being the father. Filiation was proven by the birth certificate Vasquez helped prepare, and as the father, support is his obligation under the Family Code.

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    Dolores Montefalcon filed a complaint against Ronnie Vasquez seeking child support for their son Laurence. Vasquez signed Laurence's birth certificate acknowledging paternity but only provided minimal and irregular support. The court held that Vasquez is obligated to support Laurence since he acknowledged paternity by signing the birth certificate and did not deny being the father. Filiation was proven by the birth certificate Vasquez helped prepare, and as the father, support is his obligation under the Family Code.

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    Dolores Montefalcon filed a complaint against Ronnie Vasquez seeking child support for their son Laurence. Vasquez signed Laurence's birth certificate acknowledging paternity but only provided minimal and irregular support. The court held that Vasquez is obligated to support Laurence since he acknowledged paternity by signing the birth certificate and did not deny being the father. Filiation was proven by the birth certificate Vasquez helped prepare, and as the father, support is his obligation under the Family Code.

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    #121 Montefalcon VS Vazquez

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    Dolores Montefalcon filed a complaint against Ronnie Vasquez seeking child support for their son Laurence. Vasquez signed Laurence's birth certificate acknowledging paternity but only provided minimal and irregular support. The court held that Vasquez is obligated to support Laurence since he acknowledged paternity by signing the birth certificate and did not deny being the father. Filiation was proven by the birth certificate Vasquez helped prepare, and as the father, support is his obligation under the Family Code.

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    MONTEFALCON VS VAZQUEZ

    FACTS:

    Dolores P. Montefalcon filed a Complaint for acknowledgment and support against


    respondent Ronnie S. Vasquez before the RTC of Naga City. Alleging that her son
    Laurence is the illegitimate child of Vasquez, she prayed that Vasquez be obliged to give
    support to co-petitioner Laurence Montefalcon, whose certificate of live birth he signed as
    father. According to petitioners, Vasquez only gave a total of P19,000 as support for
    Laurence since Laurence was born in1993. Vasquez allegedly also refused to give him
    regular school allowance despite repeated demands. Petitioner Dolores added that she
    and Vasquez are not legally married, and that Vasquez has his own family.

    ISSUE:
    Whether he is obliged to give support to co-petitioner Laurence.

    HELD:
    YES. Article 175 of the Family Code of the Philippines mandates that illegitimate filiation
    may be established in the same way and on the same evidence as legitimate children.
    Laurence's record of birth is an authentic, relevant and admissible piece of evidence to
    prove paternity and filiation. Vasquez did not deny that Laurence is his child with Dolores.
    He signed as father in Laurences certificate of live birth, a public document. He supplied
    the data entered in it. Thus, it is a competent evidence of filiation as he had a hand in its
    preparation. In fact, if the child had been recognized by any of the modes in the first
    paragraph of Article 172, there is no further need to file any action for acknowledgment
    because any of said modes is by itself a consummated act. As filiation is beyond question,
    support follows as matter of obligation.

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