A bit of an odd one, but Mumsnetters always seem to know these things!
A very good friend of mine is getting divorced.
He and his wife have been married just over a year. He has found out she has been cheating on him and now they are splitting up.
It's all very sad and he is gutted.
I am good friends with his mum too, as he and I were childhood friends, so his mum is like a 2nd mum to me and we talk alot.
She has confided in me (but not him) that she is very upset for him about the break up. But she is especially sad about the engagement ring.
It was her mother's engagement ring and meant alot to her. She gave it to my friend years ago and said it was for the girl he would marry, to be passed down the family.
She didn't like his wife very much, but when he said he was proposing to her, she felt like she couldn't go back on her word, and let him use his grandmothers ring.
She is really sad that such a sentimental piece of jewellery now belongs to someone that she doesn't like and who broke her sons heart.
I have said that she just needs to accept that the ring is gone. I think legally if a marriage takes place then the ring stays with the woman, is this right?
Is there anything she can do?