man; her father, her husband, or her legal guardian (the tutela mulierum perpetua, usually a relative) who was required to provide his formal approval for certain of her legal acts, usually involving transfers of property. This was reformed somewhat under Augustus when he enacted laws to encourage larger families; a woman who had given birth to at least three named children was permitted to become sui luris (her own person, legally emancipated) in the event of divorce or the death of her husband, not subject to the tutela legal guardianship. All children born of marriage were the exclusive possession of their father – they inherited his social status, name, and citizenship. In the event of divorce or the father's death, the children remained in the sole custody of the father or his family. Children born outside of marriage inherited the social status, name, and citizenship of their mother unless and until the father later legitimated them. In the Early Empire (1st–2nd Centuries CE), daughters had the same right as sons to inherit should a parent die intestate (without a will). In the Early Republic, the legal control and property of a woman passed from her father to her husband, and she became subject to her husband (or his father's) potestas. By the Late Republic, this sort of manus marriage was generally abandoned (except for patricians, because certain priesthoods were exclusively available to patricians born of a manus marriage) for the so-called "free marriage." In this more common form, the bride remained under her father's potestas, and her husband had limited legal power over her. To the extent a Roman woman in a free marriage lived beyond the daily supervision of her father, she enjoyed a higher degree of autonomy than most women in the ancient world. By the Late Republic divorce and remarriage was relatively common, though some felt it was virtuous to marry only once. When her father died, she became sui iuris (typically much earlier than a woman in a manus marriage). A father or husband could, through a provision in his will, allow his wife or daughter to select her own tutela, which would allow her to replace an uncooperative one. A mother's right to own property and to dispose of by making a will could provide her with a certain influence over her adult sons. The property of a bride in a free marriage didn't convert