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    Generoso Obusan Jr., a lawyer, married Preciosa but later abandoned her to live with Natividad, a married woman he had a child with. Preciosa found them living together in Quezon City. Obusan denied this but witnesses including the housemaid and neighbors confirmed seeing them together. The court ruled that Obusan should be disbarred for failing to maintain the high morality expected of lawyers. His abandonment of his wife to resume a relationship with a married woman constituted grossly immoral conduct and showed indifference to community standards. A lawyer shall be disbarred for such behavior.

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    Generoso Obusan Jr., a lawyer, married Preciosa but later abandoned her to live with Natividad, a married woman he had a child with. Preciosa found them living together in Quezon City. Obusan denied this but witnesses including the housemaid and neighbors confirmed seeing them together. The court ruled that Obusan should be disbarred for failing to maintain the high morality expected of lawyers. His abandonment of his wife to resume a relationship with a married woman constituted grossly immoral conduct and showed indifference to community standards. A lawyer shall be disbarred for such behavior.

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    OBUSAN v. OBUSAN

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    Generoso Obusan Jr., a lawyer, married Preciosa but later abandoned her to live with Natividad, a married woman he had a child with. Preciosa found them living together in Quezon City. Obusan denied this but witnesses including the housemaid and neighbors confirmed seeing them together. The court ruled that Obusan should be disbarred for failing to maintain the high morality expected of lawyers. His abandonment of his wife to resume a relationship with a married woman constituted grossly immoral conduct and showed indifference to community standards. A lawyer shall be disbarred for such behavior.

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    A.C. No. 1392 OBUSAN v.

    OBUSAN 128 SCRA 485


    OBUSAN v. OBUSAN
    A.C. No. 1392
    128 SCRA 485
    April 2, 1984
    FACTS: Respondent Generoso B. Obusan, Jr. was working in the Peoples Homesite and
    Housing Corporation, and became acquainted with Natividad Estabillo presented to be a
    widow, in which they had a child named John. Later, it was known Natividad’s marriage
    was still subsisting.

    Four days after the birth of John, Generoso married Preciosa (petitioner) and lived for
    more than a year. Respondent took a vacation in Camarines Norte but he has never
    returned.

    Preciosa looked for him and discovered that he was living and cohabiting with Natividad
    in Quezon City.

    The housemaid, neighbors and several other persons known to Natividad and Obusan
    testified and confirmed their relationship.

    He answered that his relationship with Natividad was terminated when he married
    Preciosa and he only goes to Quezon City to provide financial support to Jun-Jun. He
    also denied the testimonies of the maid, the plumber and several other persons and
    contended that he does not live together with Natividad.

    He also contended that he only left the conjugal home for he cannot contain the nagging
    of his wife and her interference with his professional obligations.

    ISSUE: Whether or not Atty. Obusan should be disbarred.

    RULING: Yes. He failed to maintain the highest degree of morality expected and


    required of a member of the bar

    Respondent was not able to overcome the evidence of his wife that he was guilty of
    grossly immoral conduct. Abandoning one's wife and resuming carnal relations with a
    former paramour, a married woman, fails within "that conduct which is willful, flagrant,
    or shameless, and which shows a moral indifference to the opinion of the good and
    respectable members of the community"

    Thus, lawyer shall be disbarred when he abandoned his lawful wife and cohabited with
    another woman who had borne him a child. 

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