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From: Janet Allured <jallured@MCNEESE.EDU>
List Editor: Janet Allured <jallured@MCNEESE.EDU>
Editor's Subject: proposal, Head and Master provision of Louisiana's Civil Code
Author's Subject: proposal, Head and Master provision of Louisiana's Civil Code
Date Written: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:11:26 -0500
Date Posted: Thu, 01 Jul 2009 16:11:26 -0400

I am planning on proposing a paper for the LHA on the drive to overturn the
Head and Master clause of Louisiana's Civil Code, which gave the husband
control of the couple's community property.   I will look at the three
high-profile cases that were instrumental in convincing the legislature to
overturn Head and Master and replace it with Equal Management --  Selina
Martin, Barbara Hansen, and Paillott Feenstra - as well as the arguments of
Janet Mary Riley, the Loyola law professor who spearheaded the change.



I'm interested in putting together a panel of papers that examine
Louisiana's community property system in practice.  If anyone is doing
research in this area, please contact me at the email address below.



Thanks,



Dr. Janet Allured

Department of History

Box 92860

McNeese State University

Lake Charles, LA 70609

 <mailto:jallured@mcneese.edu> jallured@mcneese.edu

337.884.0693 (cell)

337.475.5304 (office)

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