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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 20 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 5 - PROPERTY RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN
Section 20-5-40 - Earnings and income of married women.


SC Code § 20-5-40 (2012) What's This?

All the earnings and income of a married woman shall be her own separate estate and shall be governed by the same provisions of law as apply to her other separate estate.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 20-204; 1952 Code Section 20-204; 1942 Code Section 8573; 1932 Code Section 8573; Civ. C. '22 Section 5538; Civ. C. '12 Section 3759; Civ. C. '02 Section 2666; R. S. 2165; 1887 (19) 819.

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