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 Rules Ring Must Be Returned If Wedding Is Called Off
I N A CLOSELY watched case that has earned national attention, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled last week that engagement rings are “conditional gifts” that must be returned to the giver if the couple breaks up and calls the wedding off — no matter who is to blame for ending the relationship.
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.
Massachusetts Court Rules Woman Must Return $70,000 Tiffany Ring After Broken Engagement
The ruling marks a departure from a decades-old state rule requiring courts to assess who was responsible for a breakup.
Court rules on alleged cheater who kept $70,000 engagement ring in case that challenged state law
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.
Man wins back $117k engagement ring after new Massachusetts court ruling
Massachusetts’ highest court reversed a longstanding ruling, saying an engagement ring must be returned if the wedding falls through. After a year of dating that included trips to the US Virgin Islands and Italy,
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.
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.
A Massachusetts Couple Called Off Their Wedding. Who Keeps the $70,000 Ring?
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Woman must return $70,000 engagement ring to former fiance, Massachusetts' highest court rules
Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino were briefly engaged in 2017 ... Johnson appealed the decision and a Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in his favor. The appeals court said the SJC would have ...
Massachusetts would-be bride must return $70,000 ring, court rules
Massachusetts' top court on Friday ruled that a would-be bride must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her ...
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Revising the rules of engagement, Massachusetts court says jilted bride must give back $70,000 ring
That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide ... The case involved Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino, who started dating in the summer of 2016, according to court filings.