Adolphine Eduardina Kok (August 2, 1879, in

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– August 20, 1928, in Rotterdam) was a Dutch lawyer. She became the first female lawyer in the

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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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