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The Law of Husband and Wife: Compiled for Popular Use Lelia Josephine Robinson No preview available - 2008 |
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absolute divorce acquired afterwards age at eighteen alimony bed and board bigamy bind Causes for absolute Causes for divorce child's share Claims of widow CLAIMS ON PROPERTY Common law curtesy community property constitutes her separate convey her real courts of equity curtesy and dower curtesy or dower custody of children death discretion dispose divorce are adultery divorce from bed dower prevail earnings equitable erty executrix or administratrix extreme cruelty given habitual drunkenness husband and wife husband or wife husband's debts impotency imprisonment issue survives leaves issue liable living Marriage revokes married woman Massachusetts parent parties personal property personalty plaintiff real and personal real estate real property realty resided riage separate estate separate property takes one half takes one third tion trade or business unmarried void widow and widower widow or widower widower on property widower takes wife at marriage WIFE'S LEGAL STATUS wilful desertion woman at marriage women
Popular passages
Page 146 - Where any such legacy or residue, or any share of such residue, shall have been given, or have devolved, to or for the benefit of a brother or sister of the deceased, or any descendant of a brother or sister of the deceased, a duty...
Page 51 - Upon the death of either father or mother, the surviving parent, whether of full age or a minor, of a child likely to be born, or of any living child under the age of twenty-one years and unmarried, may, by deed or last will, duly executed, dispose of the custody and tuition of...
Page 10 - No woman shall marry her father, grandfather, son, grandson, step-father, brother, grandmother's husband, daughter's husband, granddaughter's husband, husband's father, husband's grandfather, husband's son, husband's grandson, brother's son, sister's son, father's brother, or mother's brother.
Page 42 - When a husband fails, without just cause, to furnish suitable support for his wife, or has deserted her, or when the wife, for justifiable cause, is actually living apart from her husband...
Page 157 - The earnings of the wife are not liable for debts of the husband, and the earnings and accumulations of the wife and of her minor children living with her or in her custody, while she is living separate from her husband, are the separate property of the wife.
Page 139 - All laws which impose or recognize civil disabilities upon a wife, which are not imposed or recognized as existing as to the husband, are hereby...
Page 126 - Under a statute providing that "suits shall be begun only in the county . . . where the defendant resides, or where the cause of action accrued, or 1.
Page 42 - ... concerning the care, custody, and maintenance of the minor children of the parties, and may determine with which of the parents the children or any of them shall remain.
Page 138 - ... penitentiary if the divorce is asked for during the imprisonment, a fraudulent contract, and a divorce procured in another State by the other party, the effect of which is to leave the defendant free and the plaintiff still bound. The plaintiff must have been a resident of the State for one year. A wife may sue for alimony and the custody of her children without a divorce, in which case a residence for a year is not necessary.
Page 109 - ... if the husband, being of sufficient ability, grossly or wantonly and cruelly refuses or neglects to provide suitable maintenance for her.