Key legal question
Whether the facilitated naturalization could be annulled under Art. 41 LN for false declaration or concealment of essential facts.
Extracted holding
Yes. The sequence of events allowed the presumption that the marriage was not stable and effective when the joint declaration was signed, and the appellant failed to rebut that presumption.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that a facilitated naturalization may be annulled only if obtained fraudulently. Here, the rapid breakdown of the marriage after naturalization, together with other serious indicia, supported the inference that the appellant lacked the intent to maintain a stable conjugal community at the decisive time.