McFadden, Presiding Judge.This appeal challenges a final judgment, entered after a bench trial, in favor of the defendant as to the plaintiff’s quantum meruit and unjust enrichment claims. Because the trial court’s findings of fact were supported by some evidence and there has been no showing of legal error, we affirm.“In reviewing a bench trial, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s rulings, defer to the trial court’s credibility judgments, and will not set aside the trial court’s factual findings unless they are clearly erroneous.” Gibson v. Gibson, 301 Ga. 622, 624 (801 SE2d 40) (2017) (citations omitted). So viewed, the evidence shows that Ecaterina Csachi rented a room in her house to Adrian Sitterli. Thereafter, Sitterli married Csachi’s daughter, who also moved into the house. While Csachi was on a trip out of the country, Sitterli began making renovations to Csachi’s house. Csachi told Sitterli that she could not pay for renovations, but indicated that after her death the house would belong to her daughter and Sitterli. Sitterli did further work on the house, but he and Csachi’s daughter later divorced. The daughter moved out of the house, while Sitterli continued living there for several months.Csachi subsequently filed a dispossessory action against Sitterli in magistrate court, and Sitterli counterclaimed for the value of the alleged improvements made to the property. The dispossessory action was resolved when Sitterli moved out of the house and the magistrate court issued a writ of possession, and his counterclaim was then transferred to superior court. After a bench trial, the superior court entered final judgment in favor of Csachi on the quantum meruit and unjust enrichment claims of Sitterli. The trial court denied Sitterli’s motion for new trial, and this appeal followed.1. Quantum meruit. Sitterli argues that the trial court erred in finding that he had not satisfied an essential element for his quantum meruit claim. We disagree. The essential elements of a claim of quantum meruit are that the provider performed services valuable to the recipient that were requested by or knowingly accepted by the recipient, that the recipient’s receipt of the services without compensating the provider would be unjust, and that the provider expected compensation at the time the services were performed.
