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In the Regional Trial Court of Dumaguete City, through counsel, Maria Elena Alvarez files a verified petition under Rule 108 seeking correction of her birth entry in the City Civil Registry of Dumaguete City. The entry currently lists her given name as "Maria Elana Alvarez" due to a clerical entry error at birth. Hospital birth records and a baptismal certificate show the correct name as "Maria Elena Alvarez." The Civil Registrar opposes the petition, arguing that correcting the given name would amount to a change of identity. The petition is supported by the hospital birth record and baptismal certificate. The issues for the RTC are: (i) Should the RTC grant the correction to reflect the name as "Maria Elena Alvarez"? (ii) What is the effect of such an order on the civil registry, the issuance of new birth certificates, and third parties who may be relying on the original entry?

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Grant the correction but require the petitioner to first obtain a court-approved annotation or cross-reference in all affected certificates, without necessarily issuing new certificates. Order cancellation of the erroneous entry and re-registration of a new entry with the corrected name, on the theory that a correction through Rule 108 may be substituted by re-registration in cases involving clerical errors. Deny the petition on jurisdictional grounds and require the petitioner to pursue a different remedy under the name-change rules, arguing Rule 108 does not govern this scenario. Grant the correction to read "Maria Elena Alvarez" and order the Civil Registrar to amend the entry and issue a new birth certificate reflecting the corrected name, with an annotation in the registry to indicate the correction and to guide future transactions.

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