US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

      (a)      A husband may sue his wife on a contract made with her, as if she were unmarried.

      (b)      (1)      A third person may take any of the following actions with or against a married woman, as if the married woman were unmarried:

                  (i)      make a contract;

                  (ii)      sue on the contract, whether the contract was made before or during the woman's marriage;

                  (iii)      sue for a tort, whether the woman committed the tort before or during her marriage; and

                  (iv)      execute on a judgment.

            (2)      A third person may maintain an action at law or in equity against a married woman in her married name.

      (c)      If the rent is in arrears under a lease entered into with a married woman for a definite term or a term of years renewable forever, then, as if the woman were unmarried, the landlord may levy on goods under distress.

      (d)      (1)      A depositary that returns to a married woman money she deposited before or during her marriage is validly discharged from any obligation concerning the money by a receipt from the woman.

            (2)      If the deposit was made in fraud of the husband's creditors, a creditor of the husband may attach or, by injunction, restrain the payment of the money.