Ford v. Ford

Code Ann. § 108-116 provides that "[a]s between husband and wife,.. payment of purchase money by one, and causing the conveyance to be made to the other, shall be presumed to be a gift, but a resulting trust in favor of the one paying the money may be shown and the presumption rebutted.” In Adderholt v. Adderholt, 240 Ga. 626(2) (242 SE2d 11) (1978), a majority of this court chose to follow a line of Georgia cases represented by Scales v. Scales, 235 Ga. 509 (220 SE2d 267) (1975) and Williams v. Thomas, 200 Ga. 767 (38 SE2d 603) (1946). That line of authority holds that in order to rebut the…