37:2-16 - Contracts of married woman without joinder or consent of husband - New Jersey Statutes

37:2-16.  Contracts of married woman without joinder or consent of husband
    Any married woman shall have the right to bind herself by contract in the same manner and to the same extent as though she were unmarried, which contract  shall be legal and obligatory, and may be enforced by and against such married  woman in her own name and apart from her husband.  Any contract relating to or  affecting her estate, interest or right in her real property or that of her  husband shall be valid without the joinder therein or consent thereto of her  husband, but shall not affect any estate, interest or right of her husband in  such real estate.

     Amended by L.1953, c. 34, p. 602, s. 6, eff. March 19, 1953.