4/14/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly loss, or (12) recovery of citizenship; (13) civil interdiction; (14) judicial determination of filiation; (15) voluntary emancipation of a minor; and (16) changes of name. Specific matters covered by the said provision include not only status but also nationality. The acts, events or factual errors envisaged in Article 407 of the New Civil Code include even those that occur after the birth of the petitioner. However, in such cases, the entries in the certificates of live birth will not be corrected or changed. The decision of the court granting the petition shall be annotated in the certificates of birth and shall form part of the civil register in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar.[65] (Underscoring provided) The facts here are similar to those in Co. Since the entry sought to be changed— citizenship—was substantial, the Manila and Quezon City trial courts correctly conducted an adversarial proceeding, notifying the local civil registrar and all parties interested under the entry sought to be corrected are impleaded. After having complied with the jurisdictional requirements for a petition under Rule 108 of the Rules of Court, Winston Brian, Christopher Troy, and Jon Nicholas alleged and proved the ultimate facts required to reflect the naturalization of their parents in their respective certificates of live birth. They established that: (1) they are the legitimate children of Lao Kian Ben and Chia Kong Liong, former Chinese nationals; (2) their parents are naturalized Filipino citizens; and (3) the nationality of their parents entered in their respective certificates of live birth remains "Chinese." The trial courts correctly granted the Petitions of Winston Brian, Christopher Troy, and Jon Nicolas, ordering that their decisions be annotated in their certificates of live birth. To prohibit the annotation of events subsequent to birth in the certificate of live birth is to deny a person the right to form his or her own identity. More than a "historical record of the facts as they existed at the time of birth,"[66] the birth certificate is an instrument of individuation. It contains entries that separates a person from others.[67] We cannot fault Winston Brian, Christopher Troy, and Jon Nicholas for wanting to change the nationality of their parents as entered in their certificates of live birth. They only want a vital marker of their identity to align with a legal truth. II The Republic nevertheless contends that, before the change prayed for by Winston Brian, Christopher Troy, and Jon Nicholas may be effected, they should first show that they had undergone the appropriate proceeding under the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Presidential Decree No. 836 in relation to Presidential Decree No. 923 before the Special Committee on Naturalization. The same way that their mother, Chia Kong Liong, underwent the similar procedure. Since changing the nationality of their parents from "Chinese" to "Filipino" would be to make it appear that Winston Brian, Christopher Troy, and Jon Nicholas are children of Filipinos and, therefore, are Filipino citizens themselves, they should likewise prove that they are qualified to become naturalized Filipinos. We disagree. https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66236 9/20