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Gothamist recently featured a story about a Manhattan court ruling where a woman was allowed to keep her 3.41 carat, $40,000 engagement ring, even after she broke off the engagement.
Typically, courts have ruled that if the bride breaks off the engagement, the groom should get the ring back. (nydailynews)
Dana Clyburn Parker and Brian Callahan met on the online dating service match.com in 2001, and became engaged in July of 2002. But in 2003 when Parker discovered that Callahan was continuing to pursue other women online, she broke off the engagement. Callahan then demanded that she return the ring and sued when she refused - this was when Parker found out that Callahan had been married the entire time they had been dating.
The court found that Callahan’s divorce wasn’t “official” when he proposed - though the divorce was granted in June 2002 a month before he proposed, a judge didn’t sign off on it until September later that year. Technically Callahan was still married, so the agreement to marry was void, and the ring could not be considered a “conditional” gift. (source: nypost)
Is it wrong for me to think he got what he deserved? 
karma …
yup…
lol no, he deserved it. BIG time.
Haha, he totally deserves that! I hope she sold it.
I agree that he got what he deserves!
hahaha. he got what he deserved. sucker!
definately deserved it. if he wasn’t able to commit then why buy the ring and propose. she should get a jeweller to redesign the ring using the original diamonds, make it into her own thing.
NO! Those are things that need to be disclosed when you plan on asking someone to marry you.
Yay for the girl getting to keep her ring! Though that Brian Callahan guy shouldve gotten much much more than that, I mean, just parting with the ring is like a miniscule punishment for what he’s done. Hope his wife (the one he hasnt divorced from yet) will sue him! I seriously hate people who cheat, mean or women.
Although it was worth $40,000, it seems like a small bandaid to cover the wound of 2 years wasted on this pig
He deserved it - even if it wasn’t for the unfinished divorce! He was looking for other women online - the break up should be on his head, even if she was the one who called it off!!
He definitely deserved that! I hope his wife divorces him and takes everything. What a jerk!
I think he got off easy! That’s a small compensation for Dana Parker IMO. I hope he had to pay for her lawyer’s fees. He’s nothing but a lying, cheating scammer. It makes me smile to think there IS justice in the world.
He totally got what he deserved and that is ridicilous!!! He deserved worse punishment though. But good for you Dana, i’m sure that ring is nice lol
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