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Hello po, I would like to ask if there is a formula or paano po namin malaman ang filing fee for judicial partition of a property? Is there an additional filing fee if we'd also ask for damages?

Back story: My father and his 2 brothers acquired a lot from their parents via deed of sale years ago. Their mother built 2 apartment buildings one each for his 2 brothers with in each other's verbally agreed portions but she wasn't able to build one for my father due to her old age. My father couldn't afford to build one so 1 of his brothers (Brother-A) used a portion of my father's share as a parking space for his tenants without giving any rent to my father.

Four years ago, my father was able to save some money to build his own structure but Brother-A wouldn't allow him since he wants to claim the parking spot as part of his share leaving my father with a very small area left. The three of them tried to settle things for four long years but nothing was achieved. My father was able to spend for different sketch plans, documents and surveys since Brother-A made life really difficult. My father made an offer to divide the property equally without damaging their existing buildings even though their previous verbally agreed portions was very different.

We are now nearing the end of our "Barangay-Lupon" meetings (2 out of 3) due to Brother-A's arrogance by not attending the meeting set by the Barangay Attorney. We are now preparing the necessary things needed for Judicial Partition thus I would like to know the possible fees needed to pay for a judicial partition.