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Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, goes into effect on January 1. [110] Mississippi: On June 15 a law making women eligible to serve on state court juries is signed by Governor John Bell Williams. Mississippi was the last state in America to allow this. [111]
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 ]
In 1925 the Texas Legislature reorganized the statutes into three major divisions: the Revised Civil Statutes, Penal Code, and Code of Criminal Procedure. [2] [5] In 1963, the Texas legislature began a major revision of the 1925 Texas statutory classification scheme, and as of 1989 over half of the statutory law had been arranged under the ...
The Inclusive Communities Project is a Texas-based non-profit organization that helps low-income families obtain affordable housing. [5] In 2008, they filed suit against the Texas agency responsible for administering these tax credits, claiming it disproportionately allocated too many tax credits "in predominantly black inner-city areas and too ...
Cuba: Universities opened to women. [3] Denmark: Maternity leave for all women. [4] Sweden: Women were given four weeks maternity leave. [5] 1902. Australia: A section in 1902 and 1922 Acts stated that every female officer was deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth Public Service of Australia upon her marriage. [6] [7]
California exempts the first $7,000 of residential homestead from property taxes. Colorado allows a 50% deduction for up to the first $200,000 (equivalent to a $100,000 exemption if the property is valued at $200,000 or above) for seniors (over age 65) who have lived in their property for ten consecutive years.
An Act to amend the law relating to the property of married women. Citation: 33 & 34 Vict. c. 93: Territorial extent England and Wales: Dates; Royal assent: 9 August 1870: Repealed: 1 January 1883 [2] Other legislation; Amended by: Married Women's Property Act 1870 Amendment Act 1874: Repealed by: Married Women's Property Act 1882: Relates to
Edith W. Locke (1902): [4] [5] First female admitted to practice law in Texas, though she did not exercise the right; Hortense Sparks Ward (1910): [6] [7] First female lawyer in Texas, as well as the first female admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (1915) Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas ...