CRM Legal Services

01/01/2026

Happy New Year 2026! 🎊

As we step into a new year, CRM Legal Services continues to promise reliable, affordable, and convenient legal support.

Thank you for trusting us. ⚖️

24/12/2025

Thank you for your trust and partnership this year!

23/12/2025

In our educated and calculated “tsismisan” about Gender and Development (GAD), I and the Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya teachers have learned that in the Chua-Qua vs. Clave case, we are reminded that the limited sense of "decency" should not ever be used as a justification for discrimination.

As teachers, we are called to protect the rights and dignity of every student. We are to challenge double standards that target the vulnerable class in the school. We have the responsibility to balance professional "moral ascendancy" with genuine human rights.

Teaching is a profession of the mind, and it is also rooted in the respect we have for the human rights.

12/12/2025

09/11/2025

Due to Supertyphoon , our office will be temporarily closed to ensure the safety of our team and clients. Your is our priority during this time.

Please stay indoors, secure your homes, and follow all official advisories.

We remain available to serve you remotely.
You may call us or message us.

We will resume normal operations once it is safe to do so.
Stay safe, everyone. 🙏

08/11/2025

Short and meaningful meeting with my former teachers and classmates. My schoolmate Garly and classmates Daisy Ann and Belinia are now educators themselves at our alma mater.

Grateful for the opportunity to discuss gender education with them.

06/11/2025

Celebrating my anniversary as a litigator with a reset. Judge is on leave.

29/04/2025

I previously volunteered to assist with the prosecution of these types of crimes. While CCTV footage exists as evidence, the victim is reluctant to formally file a complaint due to fear of retaliation from the perpetrator.

As more courageous citizens step forward to ensure justice is served against such offenders, I remain hopeful that in future cases, both victims and witnesses, like I do, will find the strength to persevere throughout the entire legal process until justice is achieved.

23/04/2025

Dagiti masapol nga i-check sakbay gumatang ti daga:

1. Titulo or Tax Declaration jay daga
2. Record ti daga ijay Registry of Deeds wenu Assessorya
3. Ocular, amwen nu sino agigyan jay daga.

The (SC) has ruled that land buyers must verify ownership by checking the certificate of title and reviewing the records in the Registry of Deeds to avoid fraudulent transactions.

In a Decision penned by Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa, the Court’s Third Division upheld the rulings of the Regional Trial Court and Court of Appeals which voided the land titles of a married couple who failed to conduct due diligence when they bought the properties from someone who acquired her titles through fraud.

Orencio and Eloisa Manalese purchased two parcels of land from Carina Pinpin, who presented certificates of title in her name and claimed to have bought the properties from the original owners, the late Narciso and Ofelia Ferreras.

However, the administrator of the Ferreras estate, alleged that Pinpin fraudulently obtained duplicate titles by submitting a false affidavit of loss and a forged deed of sale. Pinpin then used these to sell the properties to Spouses Manalese a year later.

The Supreme Court upheld the lower courts’ findings, stressing that buyers must check both the certificate of title and the Registry of Deeds records before purchasing land. Relying solely on a certificate of title is insufficient, especially if there are signs of fraud or irregularity.

In this case, the Spouses Manelese failed to investigate despite multiple warning signs, making them liable for not exercising due diligence. Several key documents were already on record, including the affidavit of loss procured by Pinpin, the issuance of another set of duplicate titles, a second affidavit of loss by a certain Zenaida Ferreras, and the nearly simultaneous registrations of these three annotations on the titles.

Said the Court: “Since petitioners did not inquire into the register, and even without such inquiry, they are nonetheless constructively notified of every registration affecting the said subject properties, they cannot feign ignorance of such
registrations.”

Read the full text of the Press Release at https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/sc-land-buyers-must-check-both-title-and-registry-of-deeds-records/.

Read the full text of the Decision at https://tinyurl.com/3njh86mk.

Read the Separate Concurring Opinion of Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul B. Inting at https://tinyurl.com/3k2p236k.

Copying of this content is subject to the SC PIO’s Credit Attribution Policy: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/credit-attribution-policy/.