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This case involves a dispute over property between Alice Van Dorn, a Filipino citizen, and her ex-husband Richard Upton, a US citizen. They were married in Hong Kong in 1979 and lived in the Philippines, where they had two children. They divorced in Nevada, US in 1982. Upton then sued Van Dorn in the Philippines, claiming her business was conjugal property. Van Dorn argued the divorce decree barred this claim. The court held that the Nevada divorce released Upton from the marriage under US law. As an alien,

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