Under couverture family law in the United States
a. married women owned only the property they brought into the marriage but did not accumulate rights to property the couple accumulated in the marriage.
b. married couples held equal rights to all property each brought into the marriage or accumulated in the marriage.
c. married women could not own property and their legal existence was suspended having been incorporated into that of their husbands.
d. married couples each maintained separate ownership of the property they each respectively brought into the marriage and shared equally any property accumulated during the marriage.
c
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a. true b. false
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