Practice question
A person deprived of an interest by actual fraud petitions to reopen a decree eight months after its entry. No protected innocent purchaser or encumbrancer exists, and the other requirements are met. Is the petition outside section 32’s one-year period solely because eight months elapsed?
- Yes, the period is only one month
- No, it is within the stated one-year period
- Yes, no fraud review is ever permitted
- Yes, only the original applicant may petition
- No, because section 32 has no time limit
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1978/pd_1529_1978.html — PD 1529, sections 6(a), 29–32 and 39
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