Republic of the Philippines

THIRD JUDICIAL REGION

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
Branch 6 Di, Bulacan

JUAN TAMAD
Petitioner, Civil Case No.:1234

- versus –

MARIA MAKILING
Respondent,
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PETITION

PETITIONER, through counsel, most respectfully states:

1. ( Averment of names and residences)

2. That, on ____________, herein petitioner, who was then the

legally wife of herein respondent filed a complaint for
annulment of marriage against said respondent, in the Regional
Trial Court of First Instance of Manila;

3. That, on ______________, herein respondent (defendant in the

annulment case) filed his answer to the aforementioned
complaint for annulment;

(State briefly the alleged facts)

4. That, after the case was duly heard and necessary and material
evidence presented, the Regional Trial Court of First Instance
of Manila rendered its decision on _________, granting the
petition for annulment of the said marriage annulled and
cancelled in the records of marriage in the Local Civil
Registrar.

5. That, on _________, both petitioner and respondent, as

plaintiff, and defendant in the petition for annulment of
marriage case were served with copies of said decision.

6. That no appeal was taken from said decision until now;

7. That the records of the petition for annulment as well as the
decision thereon were burned and destroyed during the fire
that burned the portion of the City Hall of Manila where the
records in the said case are kept and stored;

8. That since then until the present time, no action had been
taken by the respondent either to reconstitute the destroyed
records of the said case, or to perfect his appeal from the
judgement rendered therein;

9. That petitioner has, at present, serious intentions of getting

married, but respondent, upon knowledge of this, had stated on
several occasions that he would file a criminal action for
bigamy, should petitioner marry again.

WHEREFORE, petitioner prays for judgement declaring the

decision of the Regional Trial Court of First Instance of
Manila, which was rendered on ___________, in (Title and
Number of Case) as final and unappealable, declaring the bonds
of matrimony between petitioner and respondent as already
dissolved, thereby making it legal for petioner to marry
again.