Sentences with word «coverture»

White middle - class women in the early feminist movement failed to appreciate the benefits they had through patriarchal gender roles and even through the law of coverture that completely subsumed a wife's rights under her husband's in the 1800s.

I knew right away that one chocolate bar had to taste like Christmas, so I decided to use whole - milk coverture, cinnamon, pine nuts and candied orange peels.

Its roots are in coverture, making women their husband's property.

Abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone and activist Henry Blackwell created a contract when they wed in 1855, mostly in protest of coverture, in which women lost their legal existence to their husband once they married.

The coverture needs to be tempered, which means that it is melted, cooled down and then warmed up again.

You'll need a thermometer, coverture and patience.

OK, we no longer have coverture and we have more egalitarian marriages than ever before, and thankfully women have financial independence.

The parties have accumulated certain community, joint and common property and debts during the coverture of the marriage which should be equitably divided.

Case law sometimes refers to the period of time between the date of marriage and the date of filing as the coverture period.

Doing so reduces the coverture fraction of the pension that the other spouse is entitled to as part of equitable distribution.

The coverture fraction is the amount of a spouse's retirement that is subject to equitable distribution as marital property.

The calculator not only determines the present value of a pension, it also calculates the «marital portion» of the pension using a coverture ratio.

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