Disbarred was Amador B. Peleo III who was found guilty of gross unlawful, dishonest, and deceitful conduct in violation of Rule 1.01, Canon 1 of the Code of Professional Responsibility. His name was deleted from the Roll of Attorneys.
A press statement issued by the SC’s public information office stated that the complaint against Peleo was filed by Marife Venzon with whom he has a son. “The Court stressed that it was not deciding Peleo’s professional fitness based on a single and one-off private event in his life, but on ‘the confluence of respondent’s acts which already spill beyond what happens inside the privacy of one’s intimate space,” the SC PIO said in a statement.
It said “the Court noted six transgressions of Peleo — he maintained sexual relation with Marife while still lawfully married to his wife; falsified entries in the birth certificate of his son when he claimed to be legally married to Marife; repeatedly failed to give child support to his minor child; misused the legal process by filing a petition for declaration of nullity of marriage without any serious intention to prosecute it; seriously disrespected the Integrated Bar of the Philippines ’s...
“Indeed, public confidence in law and lawyers may be eroded by the irresponsible and improper conduct of a member of the Bar. Hence, every lawyer is duty bound to act and comport himself or herself in such a manner that would promote public confidence in the integrity of the legal profession.
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