ights to women. However, as the complaints of the <strong>Kansas</strong> district courts judges showed, men were not always comfortable with these changes. They found the disruption of society and the lack of care for the marriage union to be disconcerting. But for the women of Clay and Riley County, <strong>Kansas</strong>, the ability to petition for divorce opened options for them to own property and to remove themselves from harmful marital situations. <strong>Kansas</strong> women knew the law and they could use it for their own purposes. 74
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