Control of separate real and personal property

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AR Code › Title 9 › Chapter 11 › Subchapter 5 › Section 9-11-505

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(a) The real and personal property that any married person now owns, or has had conveyed to him or her by any person in good faith and without prejudice to existing creditors, that is acquired as sole and separate property, that comes to him or her by gift, bequest, descent, grant, or conveyance from any person, that he or she has acquired by trade, business, labor, or services carried on or performed on his or her sole or separate account, that a married person in this state holds or owns at the time of the marriage, and the rents, issues, and proceeds of all such property shall, notwithstanding the marriage, be and remain his or her sole and separate property. (b) The separate property may be used, collected, and invested by him or her, in his or her own name, and shall not be subject to the interference or control of his or her spouse nor shall it be liable for the spouse's debts, except as may have been contracted for the support of the spouse, or support of the children of the marriage by the spouse or his or her agent. Acts 1873, No. 126, § 2, p. 382; C. & M. Dig., § 5580; Pope's Dig., § 7230; Acts 1981, No. 873, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 55-404

(a) The real and personal property that any married person now owns, or has had conveyed to him or her by any person in good faith and without prejudice to existing creditors, that is acquired as sole and separate property, that comes to him or her by gift, bequest, descent, grant, or conveyance from any person, that he or she has acquired by trade, business, labor, or services carried on or performed on his or her sole or separate account, that a married person in this state holds or owns at the time of the marriage, and the rents, issues, and proceeds of all such property shall, notwithstanding the marriage, be and remain his or her sole and separate property.

(b) The separate property may be used, collected, and invested by him or her, in his or her own name, and shall not be subject to the interference or control of his or her spouse nor shall it be liable for the spouse's debts, except as may have been contracted for the support of the spouse, or support of the children of the marriage by the spouse or his or her agent.

Acts 1873, No. 126, § 2, p. 382; C. & M. Dig., § 5580; Pope's Dig., § 7230; Acts 1981, No. 873, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 55-404

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