Even though two-thirds of all recent first marriages, according to Ms. White, will end in divorce, and 80 per cent of married women will eventually be widowed, most women do not know the law regarding their and their husband's money. This proves to be a lucid and instructive discussion of an underexplored problem. MMW: "Do you read Ann Landers? Ann Landers provides wonderful insight into American culture, and Ann Landers now and again will print a letter which shows that many wives believe that they live in a state of community property--that is, they do believe that everything that's acquired in the course of the marriage really does belong to the two of them. And in fact, they're wrong, unless they're part of the quarter of the country that lives in the 10 community-property jurisdictions."