EN BANC

[ G.R. No. 256141. July 19, 2022 ]

BELINDA ALEXANDER, PETITIONER, VS. SPOUSES JORGE AND

HILARIA ESCALONA, AND REYGAN ESCALONA, RESPONDENTS.
DECISION

LOPEZ, M., J.:

What rules shall govern the status of a contract and the prescriptive period of an action when the husband
and wife were married during the effectivity of the Civil Code but the alienation or encumbrance of the
[1]

conjugal property, without the other spouse's consent, transpired after the effectivity of the Family Code?
[2]

Will the applicable law be reckoned from the date of marriage or the time of the transaction? These are
the core issues in this Petition for Review on Certiorari assailing the Decision dated October 26, 2020
[3] [4]

and the Resolution dated March 5, 2021 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CV No. 110958.
[5]

FACTS