FILING AND SERVICE OF PLEADINGS:

   As a rule, judgments are sufficiently served when they are delivered personally, or through registered mail to the counsel of record, or by leaving them in his office with his clerk or with a person having charge thereof. (SPOUSES ERNESTO and VICENTA TOPACIO vs. BANCO FILIPINO SAVINGS and MORTGAGE BANK, G.R. No. 157644, November 17, 2010, BRION J.).