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    LESLIE UI, Complainant, vs. ATTY. IRIS BONIFACIO, Respondent. A.C. No. 3319 June 8, 2000 de Leon, JR., J

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    Leslie Ui filed a complaint for disbarment against attorney Iris Bonifacio for carrying on an illicit relationship with Ui's husband, Carlos Ui, which resulted in two children. The issue was whether Bonifacio conducted herself in an immoral manner to deserve being barred from practicing law. The Court held no, as Bonifacio distanced herself from Carlos Ui upon discovering his true civil status, showing she did not intend to flout the law or moral standards of the legal profession. Ui failed to establish her case with clear and convincing evidence.

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    LESLIE UI, Complainant, vs. ATTY. IRIS BONIFACIO, Respondent. A.C. No. 3319 June 8, 2000 de Leon, JR., J

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    Leslie Ui filed a complaint for disbarment against attorney Iris Bonifacio for carrying on an illicit relationship with Ui's husband, Carlos Ui, which resulted in two children. The issue was whether Bonifacio conducted herself in an immoral manner to deserve being barred from practicing law. The Court held no, as Bonifacio distanced herself from Carlos Ui upon discovering his true civil status, showing she did not intend to flout the law or moral standards of the legal profession. Ui failed to establish her case with clear and convincing evidence.

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    Leslie Ui filed a complaint for disbarment against attorney Iris Bonifacio for carrying on an illicit relationship with Ui's husband, Carlos Ui, which resulted in two children. The issue was whether Bonifacio conducted herself in an immoral manner to deserve being barred from practicing law. The Court held no, as Bonifacio distanced herself from Carlos Ui upon discovering his true civil status, showing she did not intend to flout the law or moral standards of the legal profession. Ui failed to establish her case with clear and convincing evidence.

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    LESLIE UI, Complainant, vs. ATTY. IRIS BONIFACIO, Respondent. A.C. No. 3319 June 8, 2000 de Leon, JR., J

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    Leslie Ui filed a complaint for disbarment against attorney Iris Bonifacio for carrying on an illicit relationship with Ui's husband, Carlos Ui, which resulted in two children. The issue was whether Bonifacio conducted herself in an immoral manner to deserve being barred from practicing law. The Court held no, as Bonifacio distanced herself from Carlos Ui upon discovering his true civil status, showing she did not intend to flout the law or moral standards of the legal profession. Ui failed to establish her case with clear and convincing evidence.

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    LESLIE UI, complainant, vs. ATTY. IRIS BONIFACIO, respondent.

    A.C. No. 3319 June 8, 2000

    DE LEON, JR., J.

    FACTS

    On January 24, 1971 complainant Leslie Ui married Carlos L. Ui and as a result of their marital union, they had
    four (4) children. Sometime in December 1987, however, complainant found out that her husband, Carlos Ui,
    was carrying on an illicit relationship with respondent Atty. Iris Bonifacio with whom he begot a daughter
    sometime in 1986. Respondent who is a graduate of the College of Law of the University of the Philippines was
    admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1982.

    Carlos Ui admitted to complainant his relationship with the respondent. Whereupon, respondent admitted to
    her that she has a child with Carlos Ui and alleged, however, that everything was over between her and Carlos
    Ui. However, complainant again discovered that the illicit relationship between her husband and respondent
    continued, and that sometime in December 1988, respondent and her husband, Carlos Ui, had a second child.

    A complaint for disbarment as then filed on August 11, 1989 by the complainant against respondent Atty. Iris
    Bonifacio before the Commission on Bar Discipline of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (hereinafter,
    Commission) on the ground of immorality, more particularly, for carrying on an illicit relationship with the
    complainants husband, Carlos Ui.

    ISSUE

    Whether or not the respondent has conducted herself in an immoral manner for which she deserves to be
    barred from the practice of law.

    HELD

    No. The Court have held that "a member of the Bar and officer of the court is not only required to refrain from
    adulterous relationships x x x but must also so behave himself as to avoid scandalizing the public by creating the
    belief that he is flouting those moral standards." Respondents act of immediately distancing herself from Carlos
    Ui upon discovering his true civil status belies just that alleged moral indifference and proves that she had no
    intention of flaunting the law and the high moral standard of the legal profession. Complainants bare assertions
    to the contrary deserve no credit. After all, the burden of proof rests upon the complainant, and the Court will
    exercise its disciplinary powers only if she establishes her case by clear, convincing and satisfactory evidence.
    This, herein complainant miserably failed to do.

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