What is it that prospective couples break up and go to court to ask for a bride price?

Fujian Rule of Law News-Straits Rule of Law Online March 7 th Many years ago, Yan and the woman Shimou met through the Internet. After a period of contact, they fell in love. In 20 12, they held an engagement ceremony according to rural customs and began to live together.

However, shortly after the engagement, the two sides had conflicts due to trivial matters, and Shimou moved out of Yanjia. "I gave a bride price, but I couldn't get married." Yan said that in this case, the bride price should be returned when the woman is engaged. "The total bride price is 6.5438+0.75 million yuan, including 6.5438+0 million yuan, a set of gold and silver jewelry worth 35,000 yuan, a meeting gift of 20,000 yuan, and an elder meeting gift of 20,000 yuan."

However, in the face of this bride price, Shimou has his own other rhetoric.

"I received a bride price of30,000 and a gift of20,000. Moreover, the bride price has been used for the expenses of our living together for more than two years. The gift of 20,000 yuan is actually the cost of holding an engagement party. On the day of engagement, I only received a gold necklace and a ring, and there was no set of gold and silver jewelry worth 35,000 yuan. " Shimou argued that as for the gift of 20,000 yuan given by Yan to her elders, she did not collect it. Gifts should be cash gifts, not bride price.

Because the two sides held their own words and argued endlessly, they finally went to court.

Fuqing City Court found through trial that Yan paid Shimou a bride price of 65,438+10,000 yuan on the day of engagement. The 20,000 yuan bride price paid by Yan to the woman, as well as a gold necklace and a ring presented by Shimou to the man, should belong to the gifts given by both parties for the purpose of concluding marriage and enhancing feelings, and it is confirmed according to law that it is not a bride price.

At the same time, Yanmou said that he paid Shimou a set of gold and silver jewelry worth 35,000 yuan and an elder meeting gift worth 20,000 yuan. However, his own statement did not provide corresponding evidence to confirm it, and Shimou refused to recognize it, so it was not adopted. Yanmou and Shimou have never gone through the marriage registration formalities since their engagement. Now Yanmou asks Shimou to return the bride price paid, which is well-founded in the law. As appropriate, Shimou will return the bride price of 60,000 yuan to Yanmou.

The judge's statement

Bridal price is money or kind given by one party to the other for future marriage. After the engagement is dissolved, the party receiving the bride price shall return or appropriately return the corresponding property. No matter which party breaks up first, the bride price and bride price that meet the statutory return conditions should be returned, and local customs cannot conflict with the law, otherwise it will be unjust enrichment. In this case, the two parties did not conclude a marriage relationship, so the defendant should return part of the bride price.