Section 4-205 - Right to Deal With Married Woman as if Unmarried

(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.