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

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave its landmark verdict on who should keep the engagement ring- bride or the groom- after the wedding is called off. The court overturned a six-decade-old state rule that required judges to determine the party at fault for the breakup.

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.

with Johnson taking Settino to court to reclaim the engagement ring and two wedding bands he had purchased, and her countersuing for dental surgery he allegedly promised to pay for but tried to renege on. The state high court concluded that the Tiffany ...

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.

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

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.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ultimately ruled Friday that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it.

That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute. The court ultimately ruled Friday that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it,

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