Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 81-3-104 - Married individual's right to wages - Actions for personal injury(1) A married individual may:(a) receive the wages for the individual's personal labor as if unmarried;(b) maintain an action in the individual's own name and hold the same in the individual's own right as if unmarried; and(c) prosecute and defend all actions for the preservation and protection of the individual's rights and property as if unmarried.(2) A husband does not have a right of recovery:(a) on account of personal injury or wrong to the husband's wife; or(b) for expenses connected with the personal injury or wrong to the husband's wife.(3)(a) A wife may recover against a third person for a personal injury or wrong to the wife as if unmarried.(b) A recovery shall include expenses of medical treatment and other expenses paid or assumed by the husband.Renumbered from § 30-2-4 and amended by Chapter 366, 2024 General Session ,§ 96, eff. 9/1/2024.