The Fear That the Abolition of Spousal Immunity Would Result

question 41

True/False

The fear that the abolition of spousal immunity would result in a flood of fraudulent cases has come to pass in those states that have abolished such immunity.

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Seventeenth Amendment

An amendment to the United States Constitution that established the direct election of U.S. Senators by the citizens of a state, rather than by state legislatures.