5/28/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly entered on 29 June 2005 by the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo. He demanded that the conjugal partnership properties, which also include the USA properties, be liquidated and that all expenses of liquidation, including attorney’s fees of both parties be charged against the conjugal partnership.[9] The RTC of Baler, Aurora simplified the issues as follow: 1. Whether or not respondent David A. Noveras committed acts of abandonment and marital infidelity which can result into the forfeiture of the parties’ properties in favor of the petitioner and their two (2) children. 2. Whether or not the Court has jurisdiction over the properties in California, U.S.A. and the same can be included in the judicial separation prayed for. 3. Whether or not the “Joint Affidavit” x x x executed by petitioner Leticia T. Noveras and respondent David A. Noveras will amount to a waiver or forfeiture of the latter’s property rights over their conjugal properties. 4. Whether or not Leticia T. Noveras is entitled to reimbursement of onehalf of the P2.2 [M]illion sales proceeds of their property in Sampaloc, Manila and one-half of the P1.5 [M]illion used to redeem the property of Atty. Isaias Noveras, including interests and charges. 5. How the absolute community properties should be distributed. 6. Whether or not the attorney’s fees and litigation expenses of the parties were chargeable against their conjugal properties. Corollary to the above is the issue of: Whether or not the two common children of the parties are entitled to support and presumptive legitimes.[10] On 8 December 2006, the RTC rendered judgment as follows: 1. The absolute community of property of the parties is hereby declared DISSOLVED; 2. The net assets of the absolute community of property of the parties in the Philippines are hereby ordered to be awarded to respondent David A. Noveras only, with the properties in the United States of America remaining in the sole ownership of petitioner Leticia Noveras a.k.a. Leticia Tacbiana pursuant to the divorce decree issued by the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, United States of America, dissolving the marriage of the parties as of June 24, 2005. The titles presently covering said properties shall be cancelled and new titles be issued in the name of the party to whom said properties are awarded; 3. One-half of the properties awarded to respondent David A. Noveras in the preceding paragraph are hereby given to Jerome and Jena, his two minor children with petitioner Leticia Noveras a.k.a. Leticia Tacbiana as elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/57649 3/13