Heirs
of Ignacia Aguilar-Reyes Vs. Spouses Cipriano Mijares, et al.
1.
VICENTE, misrepresenting that his wife, IGNACIA, died on March 22,
1982, sold their conjugal property to spouses MIJARES. The
death certificate, however, reveals that the same was issued by the Office of
the Civil Registrar of Lubao Pampanga on March 10, 1982.
IGNACIA filed a complaint for
annulment of sale.
Should the annulment of the contract
affect ½ share of the wife or the whole contract, in its entirety?
The whole contract should be
annulled.
The plain language of the law orders
that the contract, in its entirety, executed by the husband without the wife’s
consent, may be annulled by the wife.
Art.166. Unless the wife has been declared
a non compos mentis or a spendthrift, or is under civil interdiction or is
confined in a leprosarium, the husband cannot alienate or encumber any real
property of the conjugal partnership without the wife’s consent. If she refuses
unreasonably to give her consent, the court may compel her to grant the same…
Art. 173. The wife may, during the
marriage and within ten years from the transaction questioned, ask the courts
for the annulment of any contract of the husband entered into without her
consent, when such consent is required, or any act or contract of the husband
which tends to defraud her or impair her interest in the conjugal partnership
property. Should the wife fail to exercise this right, she or her heirs after
the dissolution of the marriage, may demand the value of property fraudulently
alienated by the husband.
2.
Using the facts on No. 1, were the spouses MIJARES
purchasers in Good faith?
No.
In the instant case, there existed circumstance that
should have placed respondent spouses on guard.
The death certificate of IGNACIA reveals that it was
issued by the Office of the Civil Registrar of Lubao Pampanga on March 10,
1982. This flaw in the death certificate should have prompted respondents to
investigate further.
Moreover, respondent spouses had all the opportunity
to verify the claim of Vicente that he is a widower.
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