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

The ruling went against a decades long tradition seeing engagement rings as a 'conditional gift' after the wealthy fiance found the school teacher was messaging another man who was calling her 'cupcak

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.

A Massachusetts woman is out of luck, and a $70,000 ring from her broken engagement, after the state's high court ruled in her ex-fiance's favor. The Washington Post reports that on Friday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Caroline Settino has to give back the piece of jewelry to Bruce Johnson,

Jilted brides should return engagement rings to their exes even though it was not them who called off the wedding, a judge has ruled. A Massachusetts court ruled on Friday that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it,

A man who purchased a ring for an extravagant $70,000 will be getting it back from his ex-fiancée after breaking off the engagement when he grew wary of infidelity in the relationship, per

In a decision released Friday, the court ruled that the engagement ring should be returned to the person who originally purchased it, bringing an end to a six-decade state rule that required judges to determine who was at fault for the breakup before deciding who could keep the ring.

The ruling puts a definitive end to a six-decade-old state rule that required judges to try to identify who was to blame for the end of the relationship.