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In reply to the discussion: MRA's (Mens Rights Activists) are extremely critical of feminism. [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Which is why Western states have community property. Women can own property in their own names in Texas, since 1836, the first year of the Republic of Texas. The wife is presumed to be equally capable of working and supporting the family, and has presumed ownership of one-half the assets of a marriage, with certain exceptions.
I learned this in Marital Property class in law school. The Spanish law is much more equal.
The English law says that when two people get married they become a legal fiction of one person, and that person is the husband, says Blackstone, the English law authority who wrote Commentaries on the Law of England. That is common law, which rules New England, and why you hear of men being drained with heavy alimony payments in New York for example.
Louisiana follows the Code Napoleon, which is not equal for women.