Massachusetts court rules on who keeps engagement ring

Court Rules Woman Must Return $70,000 Engagement Ring After Man Calls Off Wedding
There’s a long-standing debate about what happens when an engagement is called off: Who should get to keep the ring? After 65 years of court debates in Massachusetts, a ruling has been made the fate of one very expensive engagement ring.
Revising the rules of engagement, court says jilted bride must give back $70,000 ring
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.
Massachusetts Would-Be Bride Must Return $70,000 Ring, Court Rules
BOSTON (Reuters) - 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 highest court nixes legal rule on which ex gets the engagement ring
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
Ex-fiancée must return $70K ring after failed engagement, court says
Massachusetts’s highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.
MA Supreme Court orders $70K engagement ring must be returned after canceled wedding
When a wedding is called off, what do you do with the ring? In the case of former Mass. couple Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino, the answer was decided by the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC).
Court rules on who gets to keep $70,000 engagement ring after relationship ended
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.
Court orders woman to return engagement ring after break up
After a dispute over a $70,000 engagement ring following a canceled wedding, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled it belongs to the buyer, ending a decades-old rule that tied ownership to who was at fault for the breakup.
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