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When could male and female siblings inherit property equally in the US?
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That equal treatment didn't happen all at once. In England the eldest son inherited. That system is called primogeniture and it never became widely used in Colonial America. However, there were different systems used in different colonies. By the 1600s most of the New England colonies and Pennsylvania allowed the children to share intestate property. In certain areas the oldest son received a double share. Southern colonies continued to favor the British intestacy rules. Thomas Jefferson railed against primogeniture and led the fight to remove it from the American scene altogether. After the Revolutionary War inheritance shared equally by siblings spread to all the states and the double share to the eldest son disappeared. (Louisiana intestacy law is unique in that it is based on French Law.) A wife did not become an heir of her husband until the twentieth century in some states.
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