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Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
1980 – Paula Hawkins of Florida, a Republican, becomes the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate without following her husband or father in the job. 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes ...
Old Babylonian law codes permitted a husband to divorce his wife under any circumstances, [4]: 140 but doing so required him to return all of her property and sometimes pay her a fine. [4]: 140 Most law codes forbade a woman to request her husband for a divorce and enforced the same penalties on a woman asking for divorce [undue weight?
The vow of an unmarried girl between the ages of 12 years and 12 years and six months might be nullified by her father and the vow of a wife that affected marital obligations may be annulled by her husband; the guilt or innocence of a wife accused of adultery might be tested through the Sotah process, although this only was successful if the ...
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Donald Sutherland and Francine Racette’s romance began five decades before his death. In the 1970s, Sutherland and Racette met on the set of the film Alien ...
In recognition of her work, Nguyen was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize [13] and was named one of the 2022 Time Women of the Year. [2] She has also received the 24th Annual Heinz Award in Public Policy, [ 3 ] Time 100 Next, [ 14 ] Forbes 30 Under 30 , [ 4 ] and was credited as a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy . [ 15 ]
New York Mets star Pete Alonso found a home-run love story with his wife, Haley Alonso. "I just couldn't get enough of her,” Pete gushed to ESPN in 2020. “For me, this was The One.” Pete and ...
In all other cases, a third party who attempted to abort a fetus without the woman's consent faced three to six years' imprisonment (five to ten years if the abortion was successful) or one to three years imprisonment if the woman consented (four to eight years if the abortion was successful). [145]