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2010 Rhode Island Code
Title 15 Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 15-4 Married Women's Rights
§ 15-4-17 Abolition of interspousal immunity.
§ 15-4-17 Abolition of interspousal immunity. – No cause of action shall be barred on the ground that the parties are married or were married at the time that the cause of action accrued. The common-law doctrine of interspousal immunity is explicitly and totally abrogated.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 124, § 1.)
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