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  2. Married Women's Property Acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Parents who gave property to a daughter upon marriage also enjoyed the protection the Act provided from a son-in-law's mishandling of his family's affairs. [14] The property a woman could own and protect from her husband's creditors included slaves. [15] Maryland enacted important legislation in 1843 and Arkansas enacted legislation in 1846. [15]

  3. Women's property rights - Wikipedia

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    Because women's property rights are often assumed through the security of the oftentimes, male, household head, some inheritance laws allocate less property to female heirs than male heirs. [15] Ongoing adherence to male-dominated traditions of property ownership has generally meant that women cannot take advantage of the wide range of benefits ...

  4. Margaret Brent - Wikipedia

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    On October 4, 1639, Margaret Brent became the first Maryland female land owner. She obtained the first recorded land grant in St. Mary's, a 70.5-acre (285,000 m 2) patent, with which she and her sister Mary established the "Sisters' Freehold", and an adjacent 50 acres (200,000 m 2) titled St. Andrew's. The Brent sisters had land entitlement ...

  5. The history of women in real estate - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky is admitted as a new state, giving the vote to free men regardless of color or property ownership, although the vote would shortly be taken away from free Black people. [5] Delaware removes property ownership as requirement to vote, but continues to require that voters pay taxes. [3] 1798. Georgia removes tax requirement for voting. [3]

  7. 'My house is unsellable': This Pennsylvania woman bought ...

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    While investigating the story, WPXI-TV News reports it discovered a deed that indicated the state had planned to condemn the property — after purchasing it from the previous owner in 1992 due to ...

  8. ‘I pay my bills’: Chicago woman loses home despite paying ...

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    In Cook County, which includes Chicago and its suburbs, property taxes are due twice a year. Taxes not paid by the first due date in March are considered "delinquent," and interest begins to accrue.

  9. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Later, Judge Ernest A. Loveless of the Circuit Court of Prince Georges County ordered her to be granted the license, [109] and Kusner became the first licensed female jockey in the United States. [108] 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]