Civil Rights: The law at which a girl can contract into a valid marriage in English Law is twelve, fourteen for a boy. Under the Married Women's Property Act of 1907, any settlement by of a husband of his wife's property is not valid unless executed by her. If she is of full age. An unmarried woman is liable for the support of illegitimate children til they attain the age of sixteen. A married  woman having separate property is under the Married Women's Property Act 1882 and 1908, liable for the support of her parents, husband, children and grandchildren.  At common law the father was entitled to the custody of any child under 16 and could only forfeit because of misconduct.  But the Court of Chancery, wherever there was  trust property and the child could be made a ward of the court, took a less rigid view of the paternal rights and looked more to the interest of the child and gave, in some cases, an extension of the women's rights.   The most remarkable disabilities under which women were still placed in 1910 were 1) exclusion of female heirs from intestate succession to real estate, unless in the absence of a male heir 2)the fact that a husband could obtain a divorce for adultery but a wife could only get divorced for adultery AND cruelty or desertion.