Kesubos 4:4-5

Kesubos 4:4

A father has authority over his minor daughter when it comes to effecting a marriage through any means, things that she finds, her handiwork and annulling her vows. He receives the value of a divorce from betrothal but he does not benefit from property she inherited (from her mother’s side) during her lifetime. Once she gets married, her husband’s rights exceed those of her father in that he does enjoy benefit from her inherited property in her lifetime. The husband is responsible to support her, to ransom her and to bury her. Rabbi Yehuda says that even the poorest Jew should be mourned with no less than two flutes and a wailer.

Kesubos 4:5

The girl remains under her father’s domain until she enters her husband’s domain at marriage. If her father delivered her to agents of the husband, this is considered entering the husband’s domain. If her father – or his agents – accompanied the husband’s agents, then she has not yet left her father’s domain. If the father’s agents deliver her to the husband’s agents, she has entered the husband’s domain.