Verona – On 7 October 2026, the civil court in Verona granted a senior doctor's request to revoke the gift of an apartment. The doctor, from Mantua, had given the property in the province of Verona to his then wife in 2021. After their divorce, he sued for its return.
The doctor learned of the relationships only years later
The doctor and his then wife, a nurse, worked at the same clinic in Mantua. At the staff Christmas dinner in 2018, a colleague's wife accused her of having a relationship with her husband. The doctor was not at the dinner and learned of the incident only in early 2022. During the proceedings, the woman admitted to three extramarital relationships.
Why the court allowed the gift to be revoked
The court took into account that the doctor knew nothing of the earlier relationship when he made the gift. Another relationship began a few weeks after the gift. The woman also used the apartment to meet her partner. The relationships had also become known in the doctor's workplace.
The court considered these circumstances as a whole to be a serious violation of the man's dignity. Article 801 of the Italian Civil Code allows a gift to be revoked on grounds of such a grave offence. The first-instance judgment provides for the change of ownership to be entered in the property register once the ruling becomes final.
