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The introduction of no-fault divorce led to a rise in divorce rates in the United States during the 1970s. [16] The National Center for Health Statistics reported that from 1975 to 1988 in the US, in families with children present, wives filed for divorce in approximately two-thirds of cases.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Oklahoma.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Oregon: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1859. Kansas: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] 1860. New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passes. [18] Married women are granted the right to control their own ...
Oklahoma: 9.3. These numbers show a higher divorce rate in South and Central states. ... the median age of a first-time divorce has increased from 30.5 to 42.6 for men and 22.7 to 40.1 for women ...
A 2021 study from The Journals of Gerontology finds that women 50 and older who divorce experience a 45% decline in their standard of living, compared to 21% for men, and Pew finds they are more ...
A study from 2011 looking at 1,786 men and 2,068 women in their first marriages found that separations that were self-initiated or jointly initiated had less severe mental (and physical) health ...
The 1970 law allowed abortion up to 16 weeks of pregnancy for broad socioeconomic reasons, if the woman was younger than 17, if the woman was older than 40, if the woman had already had four children, or if at least one parent would be unable to raise the child owing to disease or mental disturbance. [197]
The married women's property acts gave women the right to bring lawsuits in their own name, but courts were reluctant to extend that right to the marriage relationship. [1] Between 1860 and 1913, courts narrowly interpreted marriage property acts so as to not allow spouses to sue each other for tortious acts. [1]