Section 10. Contestant to file grounds of contest.

Anyone appearing to contest the will

must state in writing his grounds for opposing its allowance, and serve a copy thereof on
the petitioner and other parties interested in the estate.
Section 11. Subscribing witnesses produced or accounted for where will contested. If
the will is contested, all the subscribing witnesses, and the notary in the case of wills
executed under the Civil Code of the Philippines, if present in the Philippines and not
insane, must be produced and examined, and the death, absence, or insanity of any of
them must be satisfactorily shown to the court. If all or some of such witnesses are
present in the Philippines but outside the province where the will has been filed, their
deposition must be taken. If any or all of them testify against the due execution of the
will, or do not remember having attested to it, or are otherwise of doubtful credibility, the
will may nevertheless, be allowed if the court is satisfied from the testimony of other
witnesses and from all the evidence presented that the will was executed and attested in
the manner required by law.
If a holdgraphic will is contested, the same shall be allowed if at least three (3) witnesses
who know the handwriting of the testator explicitly declare that the will and the signature
are in the handwriting of the testator; in the absence of any competent witnesses, and if
the court deem it necessary, expert testimony may be resorted to.
Section 12. Proof where testator petitions for allowance of holographic will. Where
the testator himself petitions for the probate of his holographic will and no contest is
filed, the fact that the affirms that the holographic will and the signature are in his own
handwriting, shall be sufficient evidence of the genuineness and due execution thereof. If
the holographic will is contested, the burden of disproving the genuineness and due
execution thereof shall be on the contestant. The testator to rebut the evidence for the
contestant.
Section 13. Certificate of allowance attached to prove will. To be recorded in the Office
of Register of Deeds. If the court is satisfied, upon proof taken and filed, that the will
was duly executed, and that the testator at the time of its execution was of sound and
disposing mind, and not acting under duress, menace, and undue influence, or fraud, a
certificate of its allowance, signed by the judge, and attested by the seal of the court shall
be attached to the will and the will and certificate filed and recorded by the clerk. Attested
copies of the will devising real estate and of certificate of allowance thereof, shall be
recorded in the register of deeds of the province in which the lands lie.