Rachel Leow, ‘Can parents sell their children’s property? A property law perspective’

INTRODUCTION
Christmas arrives. Nicki’s nine-year-old son receives a gaming console and many soft toys as Christmas gifts from his doting relatives, each of them delivering the gift right into her son’s hands. Nicki, however, is annoyed. Her son has far too many soft toys: his entire room is covered in them. Nor does her son need a gaming console; he already spends too much time playing games and not enough time doing school homework. What can Nicki do? Can she sell the items, even if her son holds title to them? Will title pass unimpeachably to the purchaser? These simple but relatively neglected issues are the subject of this article …

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Rachel Leow, ‘Can parents sell their children’s property? A property law perspective’ (2026) 142 Law Quarterly Review 281-312.

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