The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the right of a legal wife over that of her late husband’s live-in partner over the dead man’s corpse.

The SC affirmed the rulings of the Court of Appeals (CA) dated October 2, 2006 and May 9, 2008 reversing the October 1, 1998 decision of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 77, which had ruled that petitioner Fe Floro Valino was entitled to the remains of the late lawyer Lope Adriano.

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