Clandestine gifts are always suspicious.

Explanation

Secret transfers raise the presumption of fraud — the law expects transactions in property to be open and visible.

Where this applies

• My relative secretly transferred property to someone else and no one knew until later.
• A business partner transferred company assets in secret to a family member.

See also

• 5.4.1 A gift is perfected by the possession of the receiver.
• 9.3.1 All things are presumed to have been done rightly and in due form.