A professor gifts rental property to her daughter and then sells the property. The professor fraudulently states that her daughter is managing the property. The buyer records after the daughter's donative deed, but the daughter records before the buyer. The jurisdiction follows a race-notice recording statute. Which statement is correct?

• A. The buyer cannot prevail because the professor's deed was unrecorded.
• B. The buyer can prevail because the buyer recorded before the daughter.
• C. The daughter prevails because she recorded first under a race-notice statute.
• D. The buyer prevails because the daughter was a donee.

Answer: (C)