Full question:
My husband and I got married a month back in Minnesota. I would like to know the law on property owned by the woman at the time of her marriage?
- Category: Husband and Wife
- Date:
- State: Minnesota
Answer:
In Minnesota, all property, real, personal and mixed and the choses in action, owned by woman at the time of her marriage shall continue to be her separate property. A married woman during the marriage may receive, acquire, and enjoy the property of every description and the rents, profits, issues and all avails of her contracts and industry, free from the control of her husband. Further, her separate property will be free from any liability on account of the husband’s debts as if she were unmarried.Minn. Stat. §519.02 states the property rights of a woman. It reads:
“All property, real, personal, and mixed, and all choses in action, owned by any woman at the time of her marriage, shall continue to be her separate property, notwithstanding such marriage; and any married woman, during coverture, may receive, acquire, and enjoy property of every description, and the rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all avails of her contracts and industry, free from the control of her husband, and from any liability on account of his debts, as fully as if she were unmarried.”
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