What if the bride refuses to return the bride price?

According to the law, the bride's refusal to return can be resolved through consultation or litigation. Of course, China's laws clearly stipulate the specific circumstances in which the bride price can be returned. For example, after marriage, the two sides do not live together. Or the client is not married at all.

Can the woman call the police if she doesn't return the bride price?

It is a custom for one party to give the other a certain bride price when getting married. Legally speaking, if he is not married, the man can ask for the return of the bride price. If the woman refuses to return the bride price at this time, the man can sue in court. Only when the following conditions are met can the people's court support the return of the bride price:

1. Neither man nor woman has gone through the marriage registration formalities in the local civil affairs department. In this case, both men and women are not husband and wife in the legal sense. Divorce bride price needs to be returned;

2. If both parties have gone through the marriage registration formalities but have not lived together, they can return the divorce bride price. * * * Cohabitation refers to living together for a long time and having the same property, rights and obligations, labor and consumption. , and in fact is a family, long-term stable life together. If there is no cohabitation, the divorce bride price needs to be returned;

3. Paying before marriage and causing difficulties for the payer. After divorce, litigation divorce or agreement divorce, the living standard of the payer is quite different from the original, and its personal property and the property jointly owned after marriage are difficult to maintain the current life, so it is necessary to return the divorce bride price. After trial by the court, if the woman still refuses to return the bride price, the court will take compulsory measures. One party cheats in marriage, that is, for the purpose of illegally possessing other people's property, using marriage as bait to conceal the truth, defrauding property under the guise of marriage, and absconding with money afterwards. If the amount is large, it should immediately report the case to the public security organ, which will investigate and collect evidence and investigate the criminal responsibility of the relevant personnel.

Legal basis: Article 5 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of Marriage and Family Organization.

The people's court shall support the request of the parties to return the bride price paid according to the custom if it is found that it belongs to the following circumstances:

(1) Both parties have not gone through the marriage registration formalities;

(2) Both parties have gone through the marriage registration formalities, but they have not lived together;

(3) premarital payment, causing difficulties to the payer. The application of items 2 and 3 of the preceding paragraph is conditional on the divorce of both parties.