Nationality affects allegiance and the concomitant right of the individual to protection by the State, and his or her political rights and duties; it may also have effects on rights and duties in private law which, while they are not uniform in all legal systems, may be of paramount importance to the individual. A study of the nationality of married women is especially important since, under different legal systems, divergent principles may apply with respect to the effect on the nationality of the wife of marriage, of a change of nationality by the husband during marriage, and of dissolution of the marriage. The laws of the various countries concerned may be in conflict and the woman may, as a result of such conflicts, be rendered stateless or may acquire more than one nationality
Nationality, married women, legal system
