Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and … market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women's earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter … married women's property acts (MWPAs). Scholarly interest in the acts' effects is growing. Researchers have examined how the …