Who Legally Owns This?? (Though I’m Sure It’s More Complicated Then I’d Like)

[Smowball]

Long story short - less than a year ago we agreed to lend my daughter & her partner £3k to buy a static caravan, which they were going to live in while they saved up a deposit for a house. She was overdrawn so asked if we cud pay it into his bank, which we did. He msgd me as soon as money arrived & said Thanku, & he wud pay money back asap. Fast forward to this week - he has now decided that he wants out of this relationship but not only that, he wants my daughter and the two girls to move out! He is insisting on staying in the caravan, saying it is his! She is obviously very upset, and doesn't want to leave as she has nowhere to go. (She can come here of course but the girls have school). The deal was the caravan was to be sold as soon as they had bought a house and no longer needed it, or if they then chose to rent elsewhere, not as a permanent home for him!! 
Where does she/we stand on this??I've a feeling I know the answer but just thought I'd ask my good friends on here.

[naomi24]

Peter Pedant, wind your neck in and try reading - and understanding - the posts.

[Smowball]

Yes Naomi - good idea bout Citizens  Advice - have just left her a message. Will call her later tho. What a blooming mess! 

[bednobs]

A couple of things occur to me. 1. Could you or your husband contact him and say I understand you plan t to stay in our caravan, that's fine once you have paid the money back to us. And 2. Do you really want your grandchildren living in a £3k static caravan? This is her opportunity to rent somewhere better.

[Peter Pedant]

phew phound it

A common use of this doctrine is when one person contributes towards the purchase price of a house. As Lord Browne-Wilkinson put it, where two parties have provided the purchase money to buy a property which is conveyed into the name of one of them alone, the latter is presumed to hold the property on a resulting trust for both parties in shares proportionate to the purchase price.

and that is Tinsley v Morgan  1994  which the divine and wisest of the wise steered me towards - er tenty y ago I think

[Peter Pedant]

I do! I do! o trismegista ! ( thrice  greatest leddy in classical Greek) - try to read and understand your posts

I do I try