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§ 4-205. Right to deal with married woman as if unmarried

MD Fam L Code § 4-205 (2019) (N/A)
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(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.

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