In re Giles’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““ * * * we are unable, in the first place, to perceive any distinction between ‘an unmarried female’ and a divorced woman, as the bankrupt in this case is. Both are unmarried females. In the next place, looking to the reason of the law, we cannot perceive any just distinction between the minor children of a deceased relative, which it may be the duty of an unmarried female to support and for which she can claim a homestead, and the minor children of an unmarried female who happens to be a divorced woman. No reason has been suggested or can be given why a divorced woman who cares for her own minor children should be deprived of an exemption in lieu of a homestead, which is clearly, under the precise terms of the statute, granted to an unmarried female, who cares for the minor children of a deceased relative. To carry the matter a little farther, and put the case somewhat stronger, it is quite impossible for any intelligent mind to explain why the exemption in lieu of a homestead should be granted to a divorced woman if the children she is supporting are those of a deceased relative, and yet refused if such children are her own.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Williams

2. ““* * * an unmarried female, who has the care of the minor children of a deceased relative, may hold exempt certain property in lieu of a homestead, and, by parity of reason, a divorced woman, who has the care of her own minor children, is entitled to a like exemption. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Williams