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Marriage Laws, Property Regimes and Poverty with Gender Bias

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NOPOOR WP#3_N°69_Marriage laws, Property Regimes and Poverty with Gender Bias.pdf (1.076Mb)
Date
2017-04
Collection title
NOPOOR Working Paper
Collection Id
69
Dewey
Economie sociale
Sujet
Women; gender inequality; poverty; marriage law; matrimonial property regimes
JEL code
D.D1; I.I3.I38; K.K3.K36
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/17664
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Ortega Díaz, Araceli
119034 Tecnológico de Monterrey
Serrano-Cote, Valeria
Amarillas, Isela
119034 Tecnológico de Monterrey
Type
Document de travail / Working paper
Item number of pages
51
Abstract (EN)
This paper analyses the relationship between property regimes of marriages in Mexico from 1996 to 2013. It starts by describing different marriage property regimes that exist in state laws in Mexico finding that 25% of Mexico’s 32 states does not assign a patrimonial regime when the spouses do not decide which regime will govern their marriage. This implies that at the time of divorce many women do not know what their legal rights are as they ignore the property regime in their marriage contract. These property regimes can generate economic inequality between men and women at the time of a marriage’s dissolution because custody of children is in 99% of the cases allocated to women, which implies more time devoted to care and less to paid work, and the food pension, when allocated, is for the children not for women´s household expenses leaving them more vulnerable in the event of a divorce.

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