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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you two aren’t getting married, you give the ring back. That is how a judge will always rule. [/quote]

Not true.  State law varies on this.  [/quote]
+1 Plus, the water gets muddied if the engagement ring was also given as a gift for another occasion (birthday, Valentine’s Day, Christmas).[/quote]

The general rule is that it is a gift in anticipation of marriage. So the “gift” is conditioned on marriage and can be revoked.

If you can prove it was just a regular gift or your state follows a different rule than you can keep it.[/quote]

I read about this last time it was mentioned. It's a very complicated area of law, because of the changing attitudes over time, and engagement being a semi-legalistic common law activity.

The snow shoveling law discussed recently is similar, where behaviors that are mandatory in some states are tortious liabilities in other states. And now abortion law.

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Yep, this. It's not the absolute rule that some PPs above are trying to claim. The state you're in, and which of you (giver or recipient) broke off the engagement, can make a big difference in whether or not, legally, it must be returned to the giver. This details how the law around engagement rings is not simply black-and-white: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/returning-engagement-ring-30198.html#

That said, on an emotional level, if the giver does not ask for it to be returned, some recipients will want to return it anyway (why keep the symbol and have it around to see, even years later, to remind you of a painful time?). But other recipients may decide to sell it -- yes, even at a loss compared to what was paid for it.[/quote]

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