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It's simply a way to further identify and describe the person and the fact that they may or may not have heirs, dowry or curtsy rights, etc. All states have similar wording for "a married couple", "Husband and wife by the entirety" (the marriage actually holds title, not an individual person), a "single person" (never married), "an unmarried woman" (not currently married but had been at some time in the past), "as her/his own separate property" (a married woman or man holding title alone).
Well, perhaps I AM a little sensitive... and shot the messenger, so to speak. It just looked funny to me, in black and white like that. And yes, the agent did explain the legal purpose behind the terminology.
The perceived difference I think is more from the person being called such and not others. I think some women just let it bother them more than it bothers many men.
"Dower and courtesy rights have been abolished in most states" Common law was never meant to be equal.
lol Why should men be bothered? the "perceived difference" being that a man is single by choice and a woman is not. This is not true, but I believe the general public perception holds, at least in my part of the USA.
We will never agree, Mike. I wonder how old you are. I am old.
"Dower and courtesy rights have been abolished in most states" Common law was never meant to be equal.
lol Why should men be bothered? the "perceived difference" being that a man is single by choice and a woman is not. This is not true, but I believe the general public perception holds, at least in my part of the USA.
We will never agree, Mike. I wonder how old you are. I am old.
I'm old enough but I think I will hold my tongue as the discussion of age is something else that on average will bother women more.
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Again a regional difference pops up. In most of the west (at least those regions occupied by Mexico in the past) community property laws exists that are very much different from back east where British Common Law was the foundation for the real estate laws.
My wife actually owns our home as JAS a married woman as her sole and separate property. I had to sign an Interspousal transfer deed when we bought the place further insulating her from one of my former spouses. (LOL Don't ask)
I know we all hate these designations but I know for my own family doing a family tree for those distant relatives of the past it was a way to say oh what happened to this persons husband or wife because on such and such date she was married and now a few years later she is unmarried so you are able to look around to find more informaition.
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the "perceived difference" being that a man is single by choice and a woman is not. This is not true, but I believe the general public perception holds, at least in my part of the USA. 
