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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="4-204" title_number="4" title_name="Spouses" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Spouses' and Third Persons' Rights">
  <text>A married woman may do any of the following, as if she were unmarried:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>engage in a business;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>make a contract with any person, including her husband, whether or not she is engaged in business;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>bind herself and her assigns by a covenant running with or related to real property or chattels real deeded to her on or after March 19, 1867;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>form a partnership with any person, including her husband;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>sue on any contract, including a contract made with her husband;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>sue for the recovery, security, or protection of her property;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>sue for any tort committed against her; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>appoint counsel to represent her in an action brought under § 4–205(b) or (c) of this subtitle or § 4–301(b) of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
