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.
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.
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.
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
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 SJC orders $70K engagement ring be returned to man in failed love story
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
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). The couple got engaged at the ...
Massachusetts high court: $70K engagement ring must be returned after canceled wedding
Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the 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.
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?
The state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that if wedding plans crumble, the engagement ring must be returned to the person ...
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Woman must return $70,000 engagement ring to former fiance, Massachusetts' highest court rules
The justices also overturned a rule that required judges to decide who is at fault for an engagement ending. Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino were briefly engaged in 2017. Johnson bought an ...
Mass. SJC tosses out ‘at fault’ rule for engagement rings
The decision was made in the case of Caroline Settino and Bruce Johnson, a couple who was engaged to be married before ...
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Massachusetts court rules engagement ring must be returned to buyer if wedding’s called off
The case involved Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino, who started dating in the summer of 2016, according to court filings. Over the next year, they traveled together, visiting New York, Bar ...