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Practice question: Summary Settlement (Rule 74)

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Practice question

All summary-settlement eligibility and jurisdiction requirements exist. Petitioner treats three-week publication as eliminating any additional notice the court directs to interested persons. Which is correct?
  1. Publication prohibits all additional notice
  2. Section2 also recognizes such other notice as the court directs
  3. The petitioner alone decides every notice
  4. Only creditors outside the country can receive notice
  5. Every heir is automatically excluded

Legal references

  • Rules74 and76–79, relevant procedural provisions (current competent court assumed, without obsolete court labels or monetary jurisdiction): https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_72-109_proceedings.html

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