The ruling marks a departure from a decades-old state rule requiring courts to assess who was responsible for a breakup.

A woman must return a $70,000 engagement ring to her former fiance after a ruling Friday from the Massachusetts Supreme ...

Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the wedding is called off? That’s what the highest court in ...

The Massachusetts State Supreme Judicial Court made the ruling ... Siden wrote in an April court filing. “The Court should continue to treat engagement rings as conditional gifts,” she added ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has overturned a 65-year-old rule that required judges to identify and give ...

Massachusetts’ highest court reversed a longstanding ruling, saying an engagement ring must be returned if the wedding falls ...

reasoning that Johnson “mistakenly thought Settino was cheating on him and called off the engagement.” An appeals court found Johnson should get the ring. In September, the case landed before the ...

Johnson ended the engagement. But ownership of the ... In September, the case landed before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which ultimately ruled that Johnson should keep the ring.

Massachusetts’ top court on Friday ruled that a would-be bride must return a US$70,000 (RM306,740) engagement ring from ...

couple Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino, the answer was decided by the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC ... The question of keeping the engagement ring after a breakup was ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has overturned a 65-year-old rule that required judges to identify and give engagement rings to the wronged party in a break-up. “More than six decades ...