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Practice question: Venue and Process (Rule 73)

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

If a presumed-dead person proves alive, what Rule73 Section4 remedy addresses the estate balance?
  1. Recovery by motion in the same proceeding
  2. Only an automatic new criminal case
  3. No recovery can ever occur
  4. Only recovery of unrelated strangers’ assets
  5. Mandatory abandonment of the balance

Legal references

  • Rule73 Sections2–4: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_72-109_proceedings.html
  • Civil Code Articles390–391: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Succession presumptions only.

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