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FE D. QUITA, petitioner,
vs. COURT OF APPEALS and
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BLANDINA DANDAN, respondents.
Actions; Settlement of Estates; Succession; If there is a
controversy before the court as to who are the lawful heirs of the
deceased person or as to the distributive shares to which each
person is entitled under the law, the controversy shall be heard
and decided as in ordinary cases.We cannot sustain petitioner.
The provision relied upon
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SECOND DIVISION.
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Id., p. 367.
Then Art. 190 of the Civil Code provided that in the absence of an
Article 1001 of the Civil Code provides that should brothers and
sisters or their children survive with the widow or widower, the latter
shall be entitled to onehalf of the inheritance and the brothers and sisters
or their children to the other half.
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Id., p. 42.
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Id., p. 180.
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Rollo, p. 196.
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CA Rollo, p. 29.
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CA Rollo, p. 30.
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Rollo, p. 206.
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SO ORDERED.