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.

Though Massachusetts in 1938 abolished so-called “heart balm” claims, which women could bring over broken engagements, the state’s high court allowed a carveout in 1959’s De Cicco v. Barker case for claims that would return an engagement ring to ...

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.

Massachusetts' top court on Friday ruled that a would-be bride must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her former fiancé in a decision that ended 65 years of courts in the New England state trying to sort through who is to blame when a relationship falls apart.

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 ago, we recognized that an antenuptial ring generally is understood to be a conditional gift and determined that the donor may recover the ring

Massachusetts' highest court on Friday overturned a rule that required courts to determine who was “at fault” for an engagement ending in deciding the fate of a ring.