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Texas, still an independent republic rather than a state, passed its act in 1840. It was the most expansive legislation of any enacted in the South and allowed a married woman to enter into certain contracts, write a will, and sue for divorce.
Wisconsin: On March 22, state legislature enacts a law that prohibited courts from denying admission to the bar on the basis of sex. The bill was drafted by Lavinia Goodell and she worked with Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly John B. Cassoday for it to pass. [34] [35] 1878. Virginia: Married women are granted separate economy. [4] 1879
Divorce Bill may refer to: An unsuccessful 1837 bill in the U.S. Congress which prefigured the Independent Treasury; Local and personal Acts of Parliament (United Kingdom) or its predecessors, to grant a divorce; Brexit divorce bill, a sum of money due to the European Union by the United Kingdom in connection with Brexit
The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977) Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900."
United States, Illinois: In 1867, the State of Illinois passed a "Bill for the Protection of Personal Liberty" which guaranteed all people accused of insanity, including wives, had the right to a public hearing. [76] United States, Illinois: Illinois passed a bill in 1867 that made abortion and attempted abortion a criminal offense. [77] [15]
In 1961, prominent NAWL member Matilda Fenberg explained the reasoning behind the group’s own proposed no-fault divorce bill and called current divorce laws “impractical and unsound.”
Van Buren announced his proposal in September 1837; [10] but that was too much for state banking interests, and an alliance of conservative Democrats and Whigs prevented it from becoming law until 1840, [13] when the 26th Congress passed the Independent Treasury Act of 1840 (ch. 41, 5 Stat. 385). Although signed into law on July 4, 1840, it ...
1996 – President Bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act into law, which outlaws federal recognition of both same-sex marriage and polygamy, and removes any requirement that states recognize such marriages entered into in other jurisdictions.