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Married Women’S Property

Cap. 176 · Revised Edition 2020 · 24 sections

• s. 1Short title
• s. 2Interpretation
• s. 3Capacity of married woman
• s. 4Property of married women
• s. 5Abolition of husband’s liability for wife’s torts and ante- nuptial contracts, debts and obligations
• s. 6Savings
• s. 7Acquisitions and dispositions of trust estates by married woman
• s. 8Stock, etc., to which a married woman is entitled
• s. 9Stock, etc., to be transferred, etc., to a married woman
• s. 10Investments in joint names of married women and others
• s. 11Stock, etc., standing in the joint names of a married woman and others
• s. 12Fraudulent investments with money of husband
• s. 13Moneys payable under policy of assurance not to form part of estate of the insured
• s. 14Remedies of married women and their husbands for the protection of their respective properties
• s. 15Wife’s ante-nuptial debts and liabilities
• s. 16Questions between husband and wife as to property to be decided in a summary way
• s. 17Married woman as an executrix or trustee
• s. 18Settlements of a married woman’s property
• s. 19Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone
• s. 20Power of attorney granted by married woman
• s. 21Legal representative of married woman
• s. 22Power of court to bind interest of married woman
• s. 23Time from which will of married woman takes effect
• s. 24Rules