Retrieving belongings and lent items after a relationship ends
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Retrieving belongings and lent items after a relationship ends
While in a relationship, I had provided a diamond promise ring and a diamond necklace to my girlfriend at the time, with the idea we wouldn’t be breaking up in the near future. New Link Destination
be smart though, right before I put them in her possession, I told her that there was a
Asked on May 31, 2018 under Family Law, Ohio
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
An agreement in which you will pay someone to marry you or otherwise be in a romantic relationship with you--which is effectively what this agreement was, since she would get to keep the items if she remained in the relationship--is against the law and public policy and is not enforceable. You gifted these items to her, and her "promise" to return them is not enforceable; she may therefore keep them.
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