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Petitioner decided to adopt the children by availing of the amnesty given under RA
8552 to individuals who simulated the birth of a child. In 2002, she filed separate
petitions for adoption of Michelle and Michael before the trial court. Michelle was
then 25 years old and already married and Michael was 18 years and seven months
old. Michelle and her husband including Michael and Olario gave their consent to
the adoption executed in an affidavit.
attached by the husband showed that he actually joined his wife in adopting
Jayson. His declarations and subsequent confirmatory testimony in open court was
sufficient to make him a co-petitioner. Future of an innocent child must not be
compromised by arbitrary insistence of rigid adherence to procedural rules on the
form of the pleadings. Hence, Petition was denied.