Stanger v. Stanger’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Nothing was said to the plaintiff about her legal rights in his property in the event of marriage. She claims that she thought she was to have title to the homestead property. She had no counsel. The plaintiff came from Germany when she was 18, and speaks English indifferently. She is without business experience. She was not a match for her husband in making such an agreement, and, as before said, had no counsel while he had.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Estate of Kinney