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A new Mishna teaches us about a father's legal rights over his daughter while she is betrothed.
He has authority over her entrance into betrothal through money, the ketubah, or intercourse.
He owns whatever she finds, her earnings, and the right to nullify her vows.
He acts on her behalf if she divorces after betrothal but before marriage.
He inherits her property (inherited from her mother's family) if she dies, but he cannot use the produce of that property while she is alive.
We struggle with the status of a daughter in antiquity and modern legal rights and obligations of fatherhood.