Marie Celina Levasseur petitions for a separation in property from her husband, Alfred Hubner. Marie Celina represents that, when she married Hubner in 1839, she brought a dowry of $4,000. One year later, she received nine slaves from her mother, Marie Françoise Trichel, as well as the rights to a portion of her mother’s plantation and her mother’s share in the succession of the late Louis Loiseau. Marie Celina Levasseur Hubner now claims that, due to her husband’s mismanagement of his affairs, her “paraphernal” property is in danger. She therefore seeks a judgment against her husband to recover her $4,000 dowry and a mortgage and privilege on his property to ensure the restitution. She also prays that the community of property between her and her husband be dissolved and she seeks the right to control her own affairs as a “feme sole.”
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Natchitoches Parish Courthouse, Natchitoches, Louisiana
