Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Missouri

If an item has been donated, then the donator no longer has title to the property. It is no longer theirs. The "tax lewtter" is the doucmentation of the transfer of the property. Unfortunatley, little if anything, prevents someone from asking for money. It just isn't owed to them. If the property was not donated, but otherwise transferrred from the previous owner to the new, then they may be owed the value of the property. The might be able to repossess the item. It comes doewn to what the intention and understanding of the parties at the time the item was transferred. If the proeprty was "donated" by somoen other than tht eowner, then they may not have had authority to do that. In that case, the actual owner may have the power to retrieve the item.

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