Massachusetts’s highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.

Eventually, Johnson bought a $70,000 diamond engagement ring and in August 2017 asked Settino’s father for permission to marry her. Two months later, he also bought two wedding bands for about $3,700. Johnson said he felt like after that Settino became ...

Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a wedding is called off? That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.

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

Massachusetts has overruled a six-decade ruling that engagement rings are returned to the offended party in a former coupling after one couple took their dispute to a judge.

He thought she cheated and she said she didn't, but the judges ruled that it doesn't matter who was to blame for the end of the relationship Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the wedding is called off?

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a woman must return her $70,000 Tiffany & Co. engagement ring after her fiancé canceled their wedding. This decision ends a decades-long legal debate in Massachusetts over who keeps the engagement ring when a relationship ends.