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The Woman's Commonwealth (also Belton Sanctificationists and Sisters of Sanctification) was a women's land-based commune first established in Belton, Texas. [1] It was founded in the late 1870s to early 1880s by Martha McWhirter and her women's bible study group on land that was inherited when the women's husbands died or quit the home.
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]
On June 9, 2023, Texas' governor signed an Act into law creating a trial level business court, as well as the first appellate level business court in the United States. The new law became effective in September 2023. [6] [7] [8] On June 28, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court approved rules of procedure for the new Business Court. [9]
The National Association of Women Lawyers was instrumental in convincing the American Bar Association to create a Family Law section in many state courts, and pushed strongly for no-fault divorce law around 1960 (cf. Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act). In 1969, California became the first U.S. state to pass a no-fault divorce law. [15]
Bell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Belton. [1]As of the 2020 census, its population was 370,647. [2] [3] Bell County is part of the Killeen–Temple, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Bell County Courthouse in Belton, Texas was built in 1884. [2]: 38 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [3] It is the third courthouse to serve Bell County. The structure was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by J. N. Preston & Son.
Bell County has declared a local state of disaster ahead of the Great American Eclipse on Monday, April 8. The county of about 400,000 is one of several Texas counties that lie in the path of ...
Battered Women's Movement in Texas [ edit ] In 1875 Martha opened the first shelter for refuges in Belton, Texas delivering services for battered wives thrives from the 1890s and was the founder of religious Sanctificationist group that stands for women should not be compelled to live without sanctified or an brutal husband and women's who ...