Manatee County Public Library System named Library of the Year by Florida Library Association. MANATEE COUNTY, FL (March 3, 2016) â Manatee County Public Library System has been named Library of the Year by the Florida Library Association (FLA), a recognition of the systemâs outstanding service to the community. It was the most prestigious award on a day of many awards for the Library System.
Unlike some other states, Illinois is not a community property state. Money or property acquired during the course of the marriage is presumed to belong to the marriage and, as such, is subject to an equitable division upon divorce. What is equitable is decided on a case-by-case basis.
During the nineteenth century, states began enacting common law principles affecting the property rights of married women. Married women's property acts differ in language, and their dates of passage span many years. One of the first was enacted by Connecticut in 1809, allowing women to write wills. The majority of states passed similar statutes in the 1850s.29 Passed in 1848, New York's Married Women's Property Act was used by other states as a model: AN ACT for the effectual protection of the property of married women. Passed April 7, 1848.