Adolphine Eduardina Kok (August 2, 1879 in
Rotterdam
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– August 20, 1928 in Rotterdam) was a Dutch lawyer. She became the first female lawyer in the
Netherlands
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in 1903.
The specialty of Kok was marriage law, later she broadened her field of work, for several years having a seat in the Guardianship Council of Rotterdam, and in 1922 she wrote a preliminary recommendation on the modernization of
matrimonial property law concerning marriages in the community of goods for the Brotherhood of Candidate Notaries.
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1879 births
1928 deaths
Dutch women lawyers
20th-century Dutch lawyers
20th-century women lawyers
20th-century Dutch women
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