Appellate Law

Second District: Engagement Rings, Heirlooms

By Matt Conigliaro

This dissolution decision recognized the general rule that a married woman’s engagement ring is her nonmarital property. The trial court in the case directed that such a ring, a family heirloom, be returned to the husband and given to the parties’ children as the husband saw fit. The Second District reversed that decision, holding that Florida law does not authorize special treatment of heirloom property and that, under the circumstances (which included the husband listing the ring as the wife’s nonmarital property), the wife should receive the ring.

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).