Ring Ownership.

[lilly1]

If a married couple are breaking up who actually owns the two rings? also if the woman gives them back voluntarily can she later go to the police and say her x has stolen them and sold them, because there was only a verbal agreement on the return by the woman.

[murraymints]

if you are given anything it becomes your property...if you hand back then you return ownership to the donor..to then claim theft is a lie and wrong...one can do what one wishes with one's own property

[Buenchico]

In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, a civil court would rule that the recipient of a gift (including a wedding ring given by a spouse) held full title to it. i.e. that it's their property alone and that they're free to do what they want with it.

The same principle (that the giving of a gift transfers full title to it) would apply to the voluntary return of a ring by one partner to the other. i.e. once the woman had said "Here, take it" she lost all rights to the ring (and couldn't reclaim those rights through later changing her mind).

There's no chance that a charge of 'theft' could be brought anyway, since anyone who genuinely believes that they have the right to possess (or sell) property (even if that belief is ill-founded) can't be convicted of theft. [Section 2, Theft Act 1968]. So it's entirely a civil matter.

[Peter Pedant]

no you dont have a claim

you should concentrate instead on a clean break divorce and getting on with the the rest of your lives - looking forward and not backward

the same answer goes for a) the dog and b) your mother's tea towels

yes I realise this is a legal advice thread - my advice doesnt change

[murraymints]

lol PP ...miss my ex Mil's Tea towels too..not..xx