HACKENSACK NEW JERSEY BERGEN COUNTY DIVORCE MEDIATOR

Boyfriend's gifts to girlfriend during their engagement, including vacations, money for a vehicle, and a vasectomy, did not carry an implied condition of marriage. These were not conditional gifts because (a) he failed to establish his intent was to condition the gifts on a marriage taking place between them; (b) the purposes of the gifts were not frustrated when the marriage did not occur; and (c) the nature of the gifts did not establish they were conditional. Hess v. Johnston, Utah Court of Appeals, July 23, 2007;  http://www.utcourts.gov/opinions/appopin/hess062107.pdf