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AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J.:
Before the Court is a Petition for Review on Certiorari
under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court assailing the
Resolution1 dated March 7, 2005 of the Regional Trial
Court (RTC), Branch 94, Quezon City in Civil Case No. Q-
05-54536 and the RTC Resolution2 dated July 11, 2005
which denied petitionerÊs Verified Motion for
Reconsideration.
The factual background of the case:
On April 18, 1999, Sharica Mari L. Go-Tan (petitioner)
and Steven L. Tan (Steven) were married.3 Out of this
union, two female children were born, Kyra Danielle4 and
Kristen Denise.5 On January 12, 2005, barely six years into
the marriage, petitioner filed a Petition with Prayer for the
Issuance of a Temporary Protective Order (TPO)6 against
Steven and her parents-in-law, Spouses Perfecto C. Tan
and Juanita L. Tan (respondents) before the RTC. She
alleged that Steven, in conspiracy with respondents, were
causing verbal, psychological and economic abuses upon
her in violation of Section 5, paragraphs (e)(2)(3)(4), (h)(5),
and (i)7 of Republic Act (R.A.)
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4 Id., at p. 22.
5 Id., at p. 23.
6 Id., at p. 1.
7 SEC. 5. Acts of Violence against Women and Their Children.·The
crime of violence against women and their children is committed through
any of the following acts:
xxxx
(e) Attempting to compel or compelling the woman or her child to
engage in conduct which the woman or her child has the right to desist
from or to desist from conduct which the woman or her child has the
right to engage in, or attempting to restrict or restricting the womanÊs or
her childÊs freedom of movement or conduct by force or threat of force,
physical or other harm or threat of physical or other harm, or
intimidation directed against the woman
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or her child. This shall include, but not limited to, the following acts
committed with the purpose or effect of controlling or restricting the
womanÊs or childÊs movement or conduct:
xxxx
(2) Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her children of
financial support legally due her or her family, or deliberately providing
the womanÊs children insufficient financial support;
(3) Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her child of a
legal right;
(4) Preventing the woman in engaging in any legitimate profession,
occupation, business or activity, or controlling the victimÊs own money or
properties, or solely controlling the conjugal or common money, or
properties;
xxxx
(h) Engaging in purposeful, knowing, or reckless conduct, personally
or through another, that alarms or causes substantial emotional or
psychological distress to the woman or her child. This shall include, but
not be limited to, the following acts:
xxxx
(5) Engaging in any form of harassment or violence;
(i) Causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or
humiliation to the woman or her child, including, but not limited to,
repeated verbal and emotional abuse, and denial of financial support or
custody of minor children or denial of access to the womanÊs
child/children.
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10 Records, p. 36.
11 Id., at p. 147.
12 Id., at p. 209.
13 Latin maxim meaning „The expression of one thing is the exclusion
of another.‰ (San Miguel Corporation Employees Union-Phil. Transport
and General Workers Org. v. San Miguel Packaging Products Employees
Union-Pambansang Diwa ng Manggagawang Pilipino, G.R. No. 171153,
September 12, 2007, 533 SCRA 125, 152).
14 Records, p. 316.
15 Id., at p. 376.
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16 Id., at p. 510.
17 Rollo, p. 8.
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23 Ladonga v. People, supra note 22; People v. Felipe, G.R. No. 142505,
December 11, 2003, 418 SCRA 146, 176; People v. Julianda, Jr., G.R. No.
128886, November 23, 2001, 370 SCRA 448, 469; People v. Quinicio, G.R. No.
142430, September 13, 2001, 365 SCRA 252, 266.
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