Disir
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Whether flush with newlywed bliss, raising a young family, or in the twilight years of a long union, all married women in the Northern Territory decades ago had something in common.
When you tied the knot, you also technically signed away your rights to property and your independent legal capacity.
No, we're not talking the turn of the century, the Depression era or even post-World War II. In the Northern Territory, this was the reality only 30 years ago.
The archaic legislation governing these matters was only rewritten by the Northern Territory Government in 1989, after an inquiry into de facto relationships discovered several 'anomalies' in the way Territory law treated married women.
The surprising laws about married women that weren't overturned until the late 1980s
I'm loving the unsealing documents by other countries. It's like.....what the hell were you people thinking?
When you tied the knot, you also technically signed away your rights to property and your independent legal capacity.
No, we're not talking the turn of the century, the Depression era or even post-World War II. In the Northern Territory, this was the reality only 30 years ago.
The archaic legislation governing these matters was only rewritten by the Northern Territory Government in 1989, after an inquiry into de facto relationships discovered several 'anomalies' in the way Territory law treated married women.
The surprising laws about married women that weren't overturned until the late 1980s
I'm loving the unsealing documents by other countries. It's like.....what the hell were you people thinking?
