EN BANC January 26, 2016 A.C. No. 10868 [Formerly CBD Case No. 07-2041] CHERYLE. VASCO-TAMARAY, Complainant, vs. ATTY. DEBORAH Z. DAQUIS, Respondent. RESOLUTION PERCURIAM: Pretending to be counsel for a party in a case and using a forged signature in a pleading merit the penalty of disbarment. Cheryl E. Vasco-Tamaray (Vasco-Tamaray) filed a ComplaintAffidavit before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines on July 30, 2007, alleging that respondent Atty. Deborah Z. Daquis (Atty. Daquis) filed, on her behalf, a Petition for Declaration of Nullity of Marriage without her consent and forged her signature on the Petition.1 She also alleged that Atty. Daquis signed the Petition for Declaration of Nullity of Marriage as "counsel for petitioner," referring to Vasco-Tamaray.2 Vasco-Tamaray stated that Atty. Daquis was not her counsel but that of her husband, Leomarte Regala Tamaray.3 To support her allegation, she attached the Affidavit4 of Maritess MarquezGuerrero. The Affidavit states: 1. Sometime in October 2006, I accompanied Cheryl Tamaray in going to East Cafe at Rustan's Makati to meet with her husband Leomarte Tamaray; 2. We arrived at the said place at around 7:00 pm and Leomarte introduced to us (Cheryl and I) Atty. Deborah Z. Daquis as his lawyer. He further told us that Atty. Daquis' husband also worked in Japan and that's how he got to know the latter and got her services; 3. Among other things, Leomarte told Cheryl that the reason for that meeting and the presence of Atty. Daquis was because he had decided to file a case to annul his marriage with Cheryl; 4. Cheryl was shocked and just cried. After awhile [sic], Leomarte's brother arrived and shortly after, the group left;