Legal Question in Family Law in California

So it sounds like you broke off the engagement...if so The ring is his... California Civil Code States:

1590. Where either party to a contemplated marriage in this State

makes a gift of money or property to the other on the basis or

assumption that the marriage will take place, in the event that the

donee refuses to enter into the marriage as contemplated or that it

is given up by mutual consent, the donor may recover such gift or

such part of its value as may, under all of the circumstances of the

case, be found by a court or jury to be just.

Bottom line, unless he broke it off the ring is his...