Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A. Concept of succession:
(Arts. 774, 712, 1311 and 1178, NCC)
Cases:
Estate of Hemady v. Luzon Surety Co., Inc., G.R. No. L-8437, Nov. 28, 1956
DKC Holdings Corp. v. CA, 329 SCRA 666 (2000)
Alvarez v. IAC, G.R. No. L-68053, May 7, 1990
Reganon v. Imperial, G.R. No. L-24434, January 17, 1968
B. Subjects of succession:
(Arts. 775; 782)
a) Distinction between heir – devisee/legatee
Art. 854, NCC
Hacbang v. Alo, G.R. No. 191031, October 5, 2015
b) Kinds of heirs
Testamentary or voluntary
Legal or intestate
Compulsory
D. Opening of succession
(Arts. 777, 42, 390-392, 533, 1347, NCC)
Meaning of death:
1) Natural demise – (Art. 42, NCC; Continental Steel Manufacturing Corp.
v. Montaño, 603 SCRA 621 (2009)
2) Presumptive Death: (Arts. 390-392, NCC; Art. 41, FC)
Tadeo-Matias v. Republic, G.R. No. 230751, April 25, 2018
Valdez v. Republic, 598 SCRA 646 (2009)
Transmission of rights in succession: (Arts. 777 and 533, NCC)
Calalang-Parulan v. Calalang-Garcia, 725 SCRA 402 (2014)
Butte v. Manuel Uy and Sons, Inc., 114 Phil. 443 (1962)
Hacbang v. Alo, supra.
Alfonso v. Andres, 626 SCRA 149 (2010)
Bonilla v. Barcena, 71 SCRA 491 (1976)
Heirs of Gregorio Lopez v. DBP, 741 SCRA 153 (2014)
Osorio v. Osorio, 41 Phil. 531
Lorenzo v. Posadas, 64 Phil. 353
Reganon v. Imperial, supra.
Uson v. Del Rosario, 92 Phil. 530 (1953)
E. Kinds of Succession
(Arts. 778-780, 960, 886-887, NCC; Art. 84, FC)
***Contractual Succession?
III Tolentino, Civil Code of the Phil., pp. 23-24 (1990 ed.)
But see Art. 84, FC.
F. Presumption of Survivorship
(Art. 43, NCC; Rule 131, Sec. 3 (jj), Rule of Court)
G. Applicable Laws
Cases:
Ancheta v. Guersey-Dalaygon, G.R. No. 139868, June 8, 2006
Bellis v. Bellis, 126 Phil. 726 (1967)
Aznar v. Garcia, G.R. No. L-16749, January 31, 1963