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 ago, we recognized that an antenuptial ring generally is understood to be a conditional gift and determined that the donor may recover the ring following a failed engagement, but only if the donor was ‘without fault,’” the court said, according to The Boston Globe. “We now join the modern trend...