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

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,

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.

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

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.

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.