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Republic of the philippines vs trinidad r. a. capote, g. r. A petition for change of name must be heard in an adversarial proceeding; it cannot be decided through a summary proceeding. The fact that no one opposed the petition did not deprive the court of its jurisdiction to hear the same nor does it make the proceeding less adversarial in nature. A proceeding is adversarial where the party seeking relief has given legal warning to the other party and afforded the latter an opportunity to contest it. All the requirements to make a proceeding adversarial were satisfied when all interested parties were afforded the opportunity to contest the petition. Facts: in 1998, respondent trinidad r. a. capote (guardian ad litem) filed a petition forchange of name of her ward from giovanni nadores gallamaso to giovanni. The petition alleged that: giovanni is the illegitimate natural child of.