Posts in June 3, 2023

This was taken from a post I made to our Facebook page recently Dower was mentioned in a post a week or so ago and there were some questions and comments about it that slipped by, so we’re going to post about it here. Keep in mind these comments speaking generally and there may be slight variances from one colony/state to another. Also keep in mind that dower has generally been abolished and replaced with other rights of joint ownership, survivor rights, etc. Dower, or usually more correctly dower right, was the right a wife had in her deceased husband’s estate (typically a third) as his widow. This right also applied to land owned by the husband. At a husband’s death if a widow elected to take her […]