NOTICE OF JUDGMENT Sirs/Mesdames: Please take notice that on March 21, 2017 a Decision/Resolution, copy attached herewith, was rendered by the Supreme Court in the above-entitled case, the original of which was received by this Office on May 17, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Very truly yours, (SGD) FELIPA G. BORLONGANANAMA Clerk of Court [1] Rollo, pp. 3-28. [2] Id. at 117-124. Penned by Associate Justice Edgardo A. Camello with Associate Justices Romulo V. Borja and Angelita A. Gacutan, concurring. [3] Id. at 156. [4] Id. at 165. [5] Id. at 162-163. [6] Presidential Decree No. 1083. [7] Rollo, pp. 342-343. [8] Id. at 30-31. [9] Id. at 142-149. [10] Id. at 151-155. [11] Id. at 29-48. Decision dated February 26, 2010, penned by Associate Justice Danton Q. Bueser with Associate Justices Edgardo A. Camello and Angelita A. Gacutan, concurring. [12] Id. at 122. [13] Id. at 121. [14] Presidential Decree No. 1083, Art. 13(l). [15] In 1917, the legislature passed Act No. 2710, which recognized divorce in the Philippine Islands. It was repealed by a new divorce law, Executive Order No. 141, during the Japanese occupation. Under Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Proclamation of October 23, 1944, which declared that "all laws, regulations and processes of any other government in the Philippines than that of the said Commonwealth are null and void and without legal effect in areas of the