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Is An Engagement Ring A Gift That You Can Ask For BACK?

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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the

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Burt show.

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So is it engagement ring a gift or not? Have we debated this before? I mean, I think that

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there is a legal definition for this, but I'm not exactly sure.

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So apparently I think it's different in different states. We can look that up, but that was

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one of the points that I saw that were made online when this discussion happened because

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yes, the question of what exactly is an engagement ring? Is it a gift or not? Once again, became

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a viral question after NBA star Ben Simmons, who is known as the guy who does not shoot

0:30.9

a lot on his team and doesn't actually keep. He can't keep on the team because he doesn't

0:35.5

have good chemistry with his teammates. And a lot of people believe that is exactly what

0:38.4

happened in his engagement as well. Because now he what was a promising engagement that

0:43.7

seemed was going to turn into this amazing marriage did not. And apparently he sent his

0:47.6

lawyers to his ex-Fiancé's home in order to collect his $800,000 engagement ring

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that he purchased for her. Because in his mind, I gave you that ring as a promise that we

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would get married. And then now that we are not getting married, then that ring does not

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belong to you. It belongs to me. And he wants it back. So some people are on his side, whereas

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other people's other people believe he's just being petty.

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No, I'm on his side. Like I'm legitimate. The thing with engagement rings, which is why

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and we have talked to lawyers before and it may vary state to state, but from what I recall,

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if you give it on the person's birthday, it's a gift. If you propose on Christmas, it's

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a gift. But any other time, it's an engagement. And I do, I feel like why would you want to

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keep like the proposal that ring that ring is not a gift that ring is a promise to get

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