Tennessee § 36-3-504 - Disabilities of coverture removed from married women — Statute of limitations.

§ 36-3-504. Disabilities of coverture removed from married women — Statute of limitations.

Married women are fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture, and the common law as to the disability of married women and its effects on the rights of property of the wife, is totally abrogated, except as set out in § 36-3-505, and marriage shall not impose any disability or incapacity on a woman as to the ownership, acquisition or disposition of property of any sort, or as to the wife's capacity to make contracts and to do all acts in reference to property that the wife could lawfully do, if the wife were not married, but every woman now married, or hereafter to be married, shall have the same capacity to acquire, hold, manage, control, use, enjoy and dispose of, all property, real and personal, in possession, and to make any contract in reference to it, and to bind herself personally, and to sue and be sued with all the rights and incidents thereof, as if the wife were not married. All of the statutes of limitation that apply in favor of or against a feme sole, and the feme sole's property, shall apply and operate in favor of or against married women and their property. Acts 1913, ch. 26, § 1; 1919, ch. 126, §§ 1, 3; Shan. Supp., §§ 4249a4, 4249a4½, 4249a6; mod. Code 1932, §§ 8460, 8462; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 36-601, 36-603. Cross-References. Acknowledgments of married person, § 66-22-109 . Actions by and against deserted wife, § 20-1-104 . Competency of spouses as witnesses, § 24-1-201 . Marriage settlements eligible for registration, § 66-24-101 . Power to obligate spouse's land for cost of improvements, § 66-11-103 . Tenancy by entireties, see notes to § 36-3-505 . Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (5th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 85, 304, 455, 542, 643. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 14 Tenn. Juris., Husband and Wife, §§ 2, 20, 21, 28; 18 Tenn. Juris., Limitations of Actions, § 34; 18 Tenn. Juris., Mechanics' Liens, § 4; 18 Tenn. Juris., Minors, § 6; 22 Tenn. Juris., Res Judicata, § 11; 24 Tenn. Juris., Trusts and Trustees, § 14; 25 Tenn. Juris., Wills, § 137; 25 Tenn. Juris., Witnesses, § 13. Law Reviews. Family Law—Bratton v. Bratton: The Tennessee Supreme Court Considers Postnuptial Agreements and Allows Married Parties to Agree That They May Eventually Disagree, (Paul Brewer), 35 U. Mem. L. Rev. 579 (2005). Family Law — Tennessee Courts — Retroactive Abolition of the Common Law Tort of Criminal Conversation, Hanover v. Ruch, 809 S.W.2d 893, 1991 Tenn. LEXIS 156 (Tenn.), cert. denied, 112 S. Ct. 381 , 116 L. Ed. 2 d 332, 502 U.S. 942 , 1991 U.S. LEXIS 6263, 60 U.S.L.W. 3342 (1991) (No. 91-525), 59 Tenn. L. Rev. 159 (1991). Stealing Love in Tennessee: The Thief Goes Free, 56 Tenn. L. Rev. 629 (1989).