§ 4-205
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§4–205.
(a)A husband may sue his wife on a contract made with her, as if she were unmarried.
(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.
(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.