What to do if I gave a ex-girlfriend’s kid my gaming system but made it clear that if we broke up it’s mine?
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What to do if I gave a ex-girlfriend’s kid my gaming system but made it clear that if we broke up it’s mine?
Now she said it’s a present and I can’t have it.
Asked on November 20, 2011 under Bankruptcy Law, Pennsylvania
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
How can you conditionally give a child a gaming system? Either you gave it or you did not. If you did not, you loaned the child the gaming system.
However your question states that the gaming system was given to the child. Once a gift is given to the person for whom the gift is for, the act is complete and the giver of the present no longer has any rights to the present.
In your situation, it seems that you gave the child a present of the gaming system. Whether you conditioned it as a present with your girlfriend was not a condition you made to the child. The gaming system is now the child's.
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