Dower is a common law right of a wife to use property after the death of the husband. It was abolished in Oklahoma by statute in 1910. See Title 84 of the Oklahoma Statutes, Section 214. All Oklahoma Statutes are available online.
west virginia
The right to dower is only applicable for the wife in a marriage upon the death of her husband. Therefore, an inchoate right to dower is not permissible in this case.
Dower rights in West Virginia was the right of a woman to inherit the property of the husband if he died first. Dower rights of this nature are no longer used in West Virginia. It is more complicated today with children inheriting along with the wife.
Robert Dower was born in 1876.
Robert Dower died in 1964.
John Dower was born in 1900.
John Dower died in 1947.
In 1945 US Federal Law abolished Dower. (See also "Curtesy")
Only by divorce, signing a Quit Deed to release Dower Rights or by the death of the dower.
Eric Gandar Dower died in 1987.
Kenneth Gandar-Dower was born in 1908.
Kenneth Gandar-Dower died in 1944.