QUESTION
Who keeps the rings when an engagement is broken?
Asked on May 16th, 2017 on General Practice - Wisconsin
More details to this question:
My fiancé gave me an engagement ring and matching wedding band. More than five years later he called off the engagement. I offered him the rings at that time but he refused them. Now more than another ten years later he wants the rings back or the cash value. I have since given them away to other family
1 ANSWER
The law varies in different states on this, but in most it depends on which party broke off the engagement and why (at least as far as the engagement ring goes; I don't remember ever seeing a case involving a wedding ring where the parties had never married). However, it doesn't really matter in your case since, whatever his rights may have been ten years ago, he let you keep the rings then, unconditionally gifting them to you, and can't take them back now.
Answered on May 16th, 2017 at 2:46 PM