The applicants, elderly parents, sought an order vesting title to a residential property registered in their daughter's name, claiming a purchase money resulting trust, bare trust, or constructive trust.
The property was purchased by their son, who later gifted it to the daughter.
The parents claimed they had paid for a previous property whose sale proceeds funded the current one, and that they contributed to upkeep.
The court dismissed the application, finding insufficient evidence that the parents contributed to the purchase price, no written agreement or certainty of intention for a bare trust, and no unjust enrichment to support a constructive trust, as the parents had lived rent-free in the properties for years.
