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    Jan 29, 2012, 08:45 PM
    Can someone take you to court over a gift?
    I am 17 and married. My father gave me a laptop for a wedding gift, and my husband a guitar. We moved out to start our own lives. Now he wants the laptop back and to take me to court. Is this right? Can he do that? Or is he looking like a fool?
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    Jan 30, 2012, 03:34 AM
    If it was a gift then you do not have to return it.
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    Jan 30, 2012, 04:12 AM
    Anyone can take someone to court over almost anything. The question is whether they can win. He would have to prove it wasn't a gift to win.
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    Jan 30, 2012, 05:56 AM
    Even a fool, idiot, or child understands, at least in an intuative sense, the concept of a gift.

    He must think either that it was not a gift or that a condition of the gift was broken or not fulfilled.

    What is your father's expressed reason for wanting it back?
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    Jan 30, 2012, 08:14 AM
    If he gave it to you with conditions, or if he loaned the value to you, then it is not a gift,
    So when he gave it to you, was there any requirements ?
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