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Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-504

Disabilities of coverture removed from married women — Statute of limitations

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Tina Marie Hodge v. Chadwick Craig (2012)

Most recently applied in Tina Marie Hodge v. Chadwick Craig (October 2012)

Acts 1913, ch. 26, § 1; 1919, ch. 126, §§ 1, 3; Shan

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(1) 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.

(2) 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.

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