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The Married Women's Property Acts are laws enacted by the individual states of the United States beginning in 1839, usually under that name and sometimes, especially when extending the provisions of a Married Women's Property Act, under names describing a specific provision, such as the Married Women's Earnings Act. The Married Women's Property ...
In 1961, Vera Coking and her husband bought the property at 127 South Columbia Place as a summertime retreat for $20,000. [1] In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million ($5 million in 2023) [2] for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. She declined the offer, and Guccione ...
Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [10] 1840. Maine: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1841. Maryland: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name ...
Key takeaways. Women in the U.S. were not allowed to finance real estate purchases without a husband or male co-signer until the 1970s. More than 60 percent of all Realtors and property managers ...
Oct. 5—Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor and his wife, Jodi, recently purchased a prominent, 180-room Anchorage hotel, and have laid plans for a $6 million renovation. The Inlet View Tower, as ...
[26] In the 1850s, according to DuBois, Lucy Stone criticized "the common law of marriage because it 'gives the "custody" of the wife's person to her husband, so that he has a right to her even against herself. ' " [28] Stone kept her premarital family name after marriage as a protest "against all manifestations of coverture". [29]
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