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Finally, after much lobbying and petitioning by KERA and other women's clubs, the legislature passed a law in 1912 that gave "qualified" women the right to vote and run for office in the new county school system. This law was tested in the courts and stood, allowing for state protection of the right for black and white women citizens to vote.
Missouri: A court found that state law dealing with women having abortions after the first trimester needing to have it performed in a hospital was unconstitutional. [226] 1980. Kentucky adopts a law preventing public hospitals from performing abortion procedures except to protect the life of the mother. [163]
For the first time in Kentucky's history, women will make up the majority of the state's supreme court. But that's not the only women are making history in the commonwealth's judicial branch.
Luxembourg: The preference for men over women in succession to Luxembourg's throne was abandoned in favour of absolute primogeniture on 20 June 2011 by decree of Grand Duke Henri. [250] [251] Iraqi Kurdistan: A 2011 Kurdish law criminalized FGM practice in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Determining inheritance after a person passes away with no traditional resources like a will, trust or estate can be challenging. What can make things even more complicated is the fact that many ...
Josephine Kirby Henry (February 22, 1846 – January 8, 1928) was an American Progressive Era women's rights leader, suffragist, social reformer, and writer from Versailles, Kentucky in the United States. Henry was a strong advocate for women and was a leading proponent of legislation that would grant married women property rights. Henry ...
A Kentucky woman who is eight weeks pregnant filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the state’s near-total ban on abortion. The suit alleges that Kentucky’s abortion laws violate the state ...
The gift would instead revert to the residuary estate or be granted under the law of intestate succession. If the deceased beneficiary was intended to inherit part or all of the residuary estate, then that portion of the estate would pass by intestate succession, as though the testator had left no will. This rule is referred to as the doctrine ...