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The Committee for Justice and Equality has been fighting for ten years to get a bill through Congress that would give these old, poor, often sick women just the right to their day in court. Now, far from passing such an equitable and fair bill, at the behest of members such as Mr. Pickett and Mr. Bateman, the House of Representatives is telling these women that not only will they not get their day in court in Virginia, but the bill will see to it that military wives are denied the most elementary due process in every state in the country.
To compound the travesty, the few fortunate women who have been back into state courts and have been granted justice in their partition suits and have been awarded a share of the pension they helped to earn, would have their share taken away once the law is enacted since the statute would “apply to judgments issued before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act."
The end result of this is that those checks would have them stopped; the portions that have been lawfully awarded through due proc
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