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Chapter 557 - Property of Husband and Wife
Act 216 of 1981 RIGHTS AND LIABILITY OF MARRIED WOMEN (557.21 - 557.29)
AN ACT to provide for the rights and liabilities of married women with respect to certain real and personal property; to abrogate the common law disabilities of married women with respect to certain contracts; to prescribe the payment and satisfaction of judgments rendered upon certain written contracts; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
History: 1981, Act 216, Eff. Mar. 31, 1982
- Section 557.21 Status of property acquired by woman before or after marriage; earnings of married woman.
- Section 557.22 Trustee for married woman; conveyance of property for use and benefit of married woman.
- Section 557.23 Common law disability of married women to contract abrogated.
- Section 557.24 Contract by married woman; liability of husband for breach of contract.
- Section 557.25 Married woman as surety for debt or obligation of other person; judgment against married woman; satisfaction.
- Section 557.26 Pledge or assignment by married woman of interest in separate property as security for debt of other person; contract by married woman giving general guarantee; satisfaction of judgment.
- Section 557.27 Married woman entering contract jointly or severally with other person.
- Section 557.28 Contract relating to property made in contemplation of marriage.
- Section 557.29 Repeal of MCL 557.1 to 557.5, 557.11, and 557.51 to 557.55.
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