jun 18, 1957 - Germany

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The project of re-examining the law on the incidents of marriage was begun in West Germany in the Basic Law of 1949 which proclaimed that "men and women have equal rights". This proclamation was implemented in 1957 by the Equal Rights Law which equalized in most respects the mutual rights and duties of husbands and wives and established a new legal regime of marital property, the "community of increase", a modified system of community property.

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4144&context=uclrev

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