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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 404 CONTRACTS AND SEPARATE ESTATE OF MARRIED WOMEN
404.020 Property rights -- Contract rights -- Transfer of personal property between husband and wife.
Download pdfand dispose of her personal property. She may make contracts, and sue and be sued,
as a single woman. She may rent out her real estate, and collect, receive and recover
in her own name the rents thereof, and make contracts for the improvement thereof. (2) A gift, transfer or assignment of personal property between husband and wife shall not be valid as to third persons, unless it is in writing, and acknowledged and
recorded as chattel mortgages are required to be acknowledged and recorded; but
the recording of any such writing shall not make valid any such gift, transfer or
assignment that is fraudulent or voidable as to creditors or purchasers. History: Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 268, sec. 2. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2128.
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