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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="4-205" title_number="4" title_name="Spouses" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Spouses' and Third Persons' Rights">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A husband may sue his wife on a contract made with her, as if she were unmarried.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A third person may take any of the following actions with or against a married woman, as if the married woman were unmarried:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>make a contract;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>sue on the contract, whether the contract was made before or during the woman’s marriage;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>sue for a tort, whether the woman committed the tort before or during her marriage; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>execute on a judgment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A third person may maintain an action at law or in equity against a married woman in her married name.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
