37:2-18 - Conveyance of real estate between husband and wife; tenants by entirety - New Jersey Statutes

37:2-18.  Conveyance of real estate between husband and wife;  tenants by entirety
    A married man may convey real estate or any interest therein directly to his  wife, and a married woman may convey real estate or any interest therein directly to her husband.  Every such conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, located in this State, heretofore or hereafter made, shall be valid and effective to convey the grantor's title and interest therein and thereto, whether both the grantor and grantee or either, respectively, shall have resided at the time of such conveyance within or without this State, and notwithstanding the wife or the husband, respectively, did not or does not join  therein and acknowledge of the same as prescribed by law.  Any such conveyance  heretofore or hereafter made shall convey the entire estate and interest of a  married man or married woman in lands held by such husband and wife as tenants  by the entirety, including the right of survivorship;  and any conveyance  heretofore or hereafter made by a married man or married woman to himself or  herself and spouse of any real estate held in fee in severalty by such married  man or married woman shall be construed to vest an estate by the entirety in  such husband and wife, in fee.  Any such conveyance shall also release the inchoate or possible future estate by the curtesy or in dower of the husband or  wife, as the case may be, in the lands conveyed to the grantee, if so provided  in such conveyance.

     Amended by L.1947, c. 408, p. 1276, s. 1;  L.1950, c. 221, p. 555, s. 1; L.1953, c. 34, p. 603, s. 9, eff. March 19, 1953.