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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this day and age, I'm not sure why an "engagement ring" is treated differently from any other thing one person gives another., at least legally.  It is a gift, and not one that is any way required to set an intention to marry.

If I plan a trip with my partner and buy tickets for two and then he backs out, would anyone think for a second that he is *legally* required to reimburse me?
[b]Let's say I don't give my partner a ring, but instead I give him a car at around the same time we start planning to get married, nobody would think he is legally required to give it back.[/b]

Morality/ethics is a different hing all together.  But engagement rings shouldn't be special in any way under the law.[/quote]

These are treated the same way.  There's case law for this.  I don't remember the specific case atm, but a man gave his fiancee a ring, bought her a house and a car, and gave her money for her own business.  She disappeared and while gone married another man and used the money to start a business somewhere else with the new husband.  The judge ruled that she had to give everything back to her original fiance.

I remember all of the debates back and forth about this one in my law school class.

Anyway, it doesn't matter in the end because the only thing that matters is the state in which the couple resides.  Each state has its own way of dealing with broken engagements now regarding who gets to keep the ring.  [/quote]

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