Practice question
A proper judicial surname petition has completed publication. The proposed hearing is five months after the last publication but twenty days before a scheduled election. Counsel claims the five-month interval satisfies all timing requirements. Which is correct?
- The pre-election restriction independently prevents that hearing date
- Five months automatically overrides every election restriction
- The petitioner may waive the election restriction alone
- The newspaper may waive it for the court
- The restriction concerns only publication dates, never hearings
Legal references
- Rules of Court, Rules103 Sections3–6 and108 Sections5–7: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_72-109_proceedings.html
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