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Show FOR THE WIFE'S PROTECTION French Law Make Drawing Up ef Ante-Nuplal Contract a Mattsr of Highest Importance. ' If an American gtrl marries Frenchman, or vtee vsraa.-aad they sjet to live in France, 1st there always b! an ants-puptW contract But let it-be it-be remembered that If no contraethaaj been signed' 'the' eoksort. after they, have retmitHj'to rwutc. wlMia tkessaelva'- naSstUM 'leassHyi regime. Bvery married tomtitM, poses to BMk-s sssrrlse e tenet In, France, aad if they; have not 4oM tel tluTiliaw. iivsf Utesa'.a QantJNKt, WsWij Is the legal oommaalty, Case a4 Coss-J sunt says. The legal comatualty.Bsay be Mkmed to a partnership,- bat a partnership of a special kind, In which the husband' Is the sole manager and absolute tsas-t ter, and the wife has no voice In the; management Consequently th hus-i band may dispose of all community, property without any hlnderanee. Byt community property you must under stand all personal property belonging, to the spouses before and after the marriage. The husband has full and, untrammoled right" to cash and squander squan-der all interest and dividends, to draw checks against the community funds, to Incumber or sell at pleasure all real estate belonging to tho community. Ho is the lord and master. Now, let us take it for granted that the French husband Is a sterling character, char-acter, that h' Is possessod ,of high business ability. But, ho may be un-, successful in the management of the community, He may have debts, and, still be the best man on earth. Pre cisely In the case of debts or unsuo-' oessful management and becanse there is no fraud, the creditors ot the, community will have the right to attach at-tach the community property, eyen if It belongs exclusively to the wife, thus leaving her penniless. Enough has been said, we believe, to. demonstrate that It Is a wise precaution precau-tion to carefully draw an ante-nuptial contract, minutely describlng"and reciting re-citing what property belongs to tho wife, and it is not to' bo Included In the regime of tho community. |