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[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]
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 ...
The Act altered the common law doctrine of coverture to include the wife's right to own, buy and sell her separate property. [8] Wives' legal identities were also restored, as the courts were forced to recognize a husband and a wife as two separate legal entities, in the same manner as if the wife was a feme sole. Married women's legal rights ...
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 ...
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The Married Women's Property Act 1870 provided that wages and property which a wife earned through her own work or inherited would be regarded as her separate property and by the Married Women's Property Act 1882, this principle was extended to all property, regardless of its source or the time of its acquisition. [10]
A man is raising eyebrows online after sharing that he suggested a unique name for his new baby with his wife: the name of his ex-girlfriend. In a post shared on Reddit, the anonymous, 40-year-old ...
Eric Hovde and his wife, Sharon, bought a Washington D.C. home, top, paying a little more than $2.3 million for the place on the city's northwest side in 2018.