Legal Opinion Teresa Campos
January 23, 2014
Ms. Teresa Campos
95 Tindalo Street,
Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa
Dear Ms. Campos:
Here is the opinion you requested. The facts, gathered from you and your documents, are as follows:
Roy Lopez was a salesman in his uncle’s sewing machine company and Teresa met him when he tried to sell them their machine. Roy confessed to Teresa that five years ago he had a relationship with Ester Salva, a former employee in his uncle’s company. He kept that relationship from his family because they were concerned with his mother who suffered a stroke. Unfortunately, Ester became pregnant during their affair.
When Ester got pregnant, she wanted to marry Roy but he told her that they were not meant for each other and that he was afraid that it would break his Mom’s heart. He has consistently given support to their child whom they named Melinda. Roy said that it was Ester who registered their daughter, using his surname Lopez and told Roy about the registration long afterwards.
Roy and Teresa decided to get married and got the blessings of their parents and have set it next month on December 17. Teresa received by mail copies of a marriage license issued by the Civil Registrar’s office of Imus, Cavite, dated September 17, 2005 in favor of Roy and Ester and a certificate of marriage showing that they were married at the office of some religious pastor at the back of Manila City Hall on August 4, 2005.
A handwriting expert confirmed that all the information, specimen handwritings and signatures written in the documents were wrong. Roy confronted Ester about it and she confessed that in 2005 out of sheer desperation, she got the marriage license from Cavite with someone’s help and paid for the marriage certificate from an office near the city hall of Manila.
Ester’s father said that he would file charges of bigamy against Roy if he marries Teresa. The documents are forgeries but they are part of the official records of the Manila Civil Registry
Ms. Teresa Campos
95 Tindalo Street,
Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa
Dear Ms. Campos:
Here is the opinion you requested. The facts, gathered from you and your documents, are as follows:
Roy Lopez was a salesman in his uncle’s sewing machine company and Teresa met him when he tried to sell them their machine. Roy confessed to Teresa that five years ago he had a relationship with Ester Salva, a former employee in his uncle’s company. He kept that relationship from his family because they were concerned with his mother who suffered a stroke. Unfortunately, Ester became pregnant during their affair.
When Ester got pregnant, she wanted to marry Roy but he told her that they were not meant for each other and that he was afraid that it would break his Mom’s heart. He has consistently given support to their child whom they named Melinda. Roy said that it was Ester who registered their daughter, using his surname Lopez and told Roy about the registration long afterwards.
Roy and Teresa decided to get married and got the blessings of their parents and have set it next month on December 17. Teresa received by mail copies of a marriage license issued by the Civil Registrar’s office of Imus, Cavite, dated September 17, 2005 in favor of Roy and Ester and a certificate of marriage showing that they were married at the office of some religious pastor at the back of Manila City Hall on August 4, 2005.
A handwriting expert confirmed that all the information, specimen handwritings and signatures written in the documents were wrong. Roy confronted Ester about it and she confessed that in 2005 out of sheer desperation, she got the marriage license from Cavite with someone’s help and paid for the marriage certificate from an office near the city hall of Manila.
Ester’s father said that he would file charges of bigamy against Roy if he marries Teresa. The documents are forgeries but they are part of the official records of the Manila Civil Registry