Practice question
A proceeding seeks letters of administration to settle a deceased person’s estate. Is it automatically a Rule69 action merely because property will eventually be distributed?
- No; estate settlement is a special proceeding with its own framework
- Yes; every distribution is Rule69 partition
- Yes; death has no procedural significance
- Yes; every special proceeding is expropriation
- Yes; every estate case is an ordinary loan suit
Legal references
- Rules of Court Rules1,62–63,67 and69: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html
- Rules of Court special proceedings, estate-settlement classification: https://lawphil.net/courts/supreme/rc/rc_72-109_proceedings.html
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