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2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 404 - Contracts and separate estate of married women
404.050 When wife may convey or mortgage her real estate free from husband's claim.

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404.050 When wife may convey or mortgage her real estate free from husband's claim. When a husband has been adjudged mentally disabled by a court of competent jurisdiction, the wife, by judgment of a court of equity, may be empowered to sell and convey by her own deed, or to mortgage by appropriate instrument, any of her real estate freed as to it and its proceeds from any claim of her husband. Effective: July 1, 1982 History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 128, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 14, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 152, secs. 1 and 3. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2131. Note: 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 139 would have amended this section effective July 1, 1982. However, 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396 was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.
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