Practice question
A litigant fails to prove a person’s foreign citizenship and asks the court to use processual presumption to deem that person a national of the desired foreign state. Which is correct?
- The presumption proves any citizenship allegation
- The presumption makes all litigants Filipino
- A lawyer may select citizenship by argument
- Processual presumption concerns unproved foreign law and does not itself establish an unproved citizenship fact
- Citizenship never matters in conflicts analysis
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/feb2024/gr_256540_2024.html — Bison Management Corporation v. AAA, G.R. No. 256540, February 14, 2024
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/pdf/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.pdf — 2019 Amendments to the Revised Rules on Evidence, Rule 132 sections 24–25
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/69859 — Anido v. Republic, G.R. No. 253527, October 21, 2024
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