Common Contracts

Background

May 28th, 2021

• Filed
  May 28th, 2021

This document demonstrates how the Spanish legal approach to the dowry and arras afforded women the ability to escape unhappy marriages. Doña María could leave her husband and still support herself and her daughters because she had a pre-existing and protected fortune. She is also able to counter her husband’s custody claim by arguing that any fortune he has left is legally hers to make up for the dowry he