Pathological Lying
Pathological Lying is a ground for psychological incapacity.
A case for petition for declaration of nullity of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity.
ANTONIO vs REYES
Facts:
Petitioner and respondent
met in August 1989 when petitioner was 26 years old and respondent was 36 years
of age. Barely a year after their first meeting, they got married before a
minister of the Gospel at
the Manila City Hall, and through a subsequent church wedding at
the Sta. Rosa de Lima Parish, Bagong Ilog, Pasig, Metro Manila on 6
December 1990. Out
of their union, a child was born on 19 April 1991, who sadly died five (5)
months later.
On 8 March 1993, petitioner
filed a petition to have his marriage to respondent declared null and void. He
anchored his petition for nullity on Article 36 of the Family Code alleging
that respondent was psychologically incapacitated to comply with the essential
obligations of marriage. He asserted that respondent’s incapacity existed at
the time their marriage was celebrated and still subsists up to the present.
As manifestations of
respondent’s alleged psychological incapacity, petitioner claimed that
respondent persistently lied about herself, the people around her, her
occupation, income, educational attainment and other events or things, to
wit:
(1) She concealed the fact
that she previously gave birth to an illegitimate son, and
instead introduced the boy to petitioner as the adopted child of her family.
She only confessed the truth about the boy’s parentage when petitioner learned
about it from other sources after their marriage.
(2)
She fabricated a story that her brother-in-law, Edwin David, attempted to rape
and kill her when in fact, no such incident occurred.
(3) She misrepresented
herself as a psychiatrist to her obstetrician, Dr. Consuelo Gardiner, and told
some of her friends that she graduated with a degree in psychology, when she
was neither.
(4) She claimed to be a
singer or a free-lance voice talent affiliated with Blackgold Recording Company
(Blackgold); yet, not a single member of her family ever witnessed her alleged
singing activities with the group. In the same vein, she postulated that a
luncheon show was held at the Philippine Village Hotel in her honor and even
presented an invitation to that effect but
petitioner discovered per certification by the Director of Sales of said hotel
that no such occasion had taken place.
(5) She invented friends
named Babes Santos and Via Marquez, and under those names, sent lengthy letters
to petitioner claiming to be from Blackgold and touting her as the “number one
moneymaker” in the commercial industry worth P2 million. Petitioner
later found out that respondent herself was the one who wrote and sent the
letters to him when she admitted the truth in one of their quarrels. He
likewise realized that Babes Santos and Via Marquez were only figments of her
imagination when he discovered they were not known in or connected with
Blackgold.
(6)
She represented herself as a person of greater means, thus, she altered her
payslip to make it appear that she earned a higher income. She bought a sala
set from a public market but told petitioner that she acquired it from a famous
furniture dealer. She
spent lavishly on unnecessary items and ended up borrowing money from other
people on false pretexts.
(7)
She exhibited insecurities and jealousies over him to the extent of calling up
his officemates to monitor his whereabouts. When he could no longer take her
unusual behavior, he separated from her in August 1991. He tried to attempt a
reconciliation but since her behavior did not change, he finally left her for
good in November 1991.
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