CASE DIGEST Calalang vs Calalang G.R. No. 184148 | June 9, 2014 Topic: Successional rights are vested only at the time of death; Facts: A Complaint for Annulment of Sale and Reconveyance of Property was filed with the RTC by the respondents and asserted their ownership over a certain parcel of land against the petitioners. According to the respondents, their father, Pedro Calalang contracted two marriages during his lifetime. The petitioners argue that the disputed property belonged to the conjugal partnership of the second marriage of Pedro Calalang which was issued to Pedro Calalang during the subsistence of the second marriage. On the other hand, the respondents claim that the disputed property was transferred by their maternal grandmother, Francisca Silverio, to their parents on the first marriage, Pedro Calalang and Encarnacion Silverio, during the latter’s marriage. Thus, the respondents argue that it belonged to the conjugal partnership of th...
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