The status of marriage, as opposed to unmarried pregnant women, allows the spouse to be responsible for the child, and to speak on behalf of their wife; a partner is also responsible for the wifes child in states where they are automatically assumed to be the biological legal parent. Vice versa, a wife has more legal authority in some cases when she speaks on behalf of a spouse than she would have if they were not married, e.g. when her spouse is in a coma after an accident, a wife may have the right of advocacy. If they divorce, she also might receive—or pay—alimony (see Law and divorce around the world). Womens income affect the dynamics of heterosexual love relationships
The effect of womens income on heterosexual relationships’ dynamics depends on the couple’s different factors. Firstly on the cultural values that the couple has. As explained in (Brown and Roberts (2014)., according to the traditional levels of values of the couple, is going to dependent there effects that the wifes income is going to generate in the dynamics of the relationship. If the couple has strong traditional values, the income of women will affect mens gender identity and affect their well-being. On the other hand if they have strong liberal values, the income of a woman changes the dynamics almost in the opposite way, wife’s are the provider of the house and the man does the housework.
The Roman Catholic Churchs policy of considering clandestine marriages and marriages made without parental consent to be valid was controversial, and in the 16th century both the French monarchy and the Lutheran church sought to end these practices, with limited success.The New Testament made no pronouncements about wives property rights, which in practice were influenced more by secular laws than religion. Most influential in the pre-modern West was the civil law, except in English-speaking countries where English common law emerged in the High Middle Ages. In addition, local customary law influenced wives property rights; as a result wives property rights in the pre-modern West varied widely from region to region. Because wives property rights and daughters inheritance rights varied widely from region to region due to differing legal systems, the amount of property a wife might own varied greatly. Under the English common law system, which dates to the later medieval period, daughters and younger sons were usually excluded from landed property if no will was produced. Under English common law, there was a system where a wife with a living husband ("feme couvert") could own little property in her own name. Unable to easily support herself, marriage was very important to most womens economic status. This problem has been dealt with extensively in literature, where the most important reason for womens limited power was the denial of equal education and equal property rights for females.