Is there a resulting trust arising when title to property is in one party’s name but the other's name?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Luo v Vesterinen, 2017 BCSC 1566 (CanLII):

A resulting trust arises “when title to property is in one party’s name, but that party, because he or she is a fiduciary or gave no value for the property, is under an obligation to return it to the original title owner”: Pecore v. Pecore, 2007 SCC 17 at para. 20.

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