Title XXXV, Domestic Relations
8 chapters · 325 sections in this title.
KRS § 404.010 Effect of marriage on wife's property -- Separate estate -- Subjection of estate to debts
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estate to debts. (1) Marriage shall give to the husband, during the life of the wife, no estate or interest in the wife's property, real or personal, owned at the time or acquired after the marriage. During the existence of the marriage relationship the wife shall hold and own al…
KRS § 404.020 Property rights -- Contract rights -- Transfer of personal property between husband and wife
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between husband and wife. (1) A married woman may acquire and hold property, real and personal, by gift, devise or descent, or by purchase, and may, in her own name, as if she were unmarried, sell and dispose of her personal property. She may make contracts, and sue and be sued, …
KRS § 404.030 Conveyance or encumbrance of real property by married woman -- Husband's curtesy right -- Conveyance by married woman through agent
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Husband's curtesy right -- Conveyance by married woman through agent. (1) A married woman may sell, convey or encumber any of her lands and chattels real, but such sale, conveyance or encumbrance shall not bar the husband's right to curtesy unless he joins in the instrument of sa…
KRS § 404.040 Liability of husband for wife's debts
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The husband shall not be liable for any debt or responsibility of the wife contracted or incurred before or after marriage, except to the amount or value of the property he received from or by her by virtue of the marriage; but he shall be liable for necessaries furnished to her …
KRS § 404.050 When wife may convey or mortgage her real estate free from husband's claim
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claim. When a husband has been adjudged mentally disabled by a court of competent jurisdiction, the wife, by judgment of a court of equity, may be empowered to sell and convey by her own deed, or to mortgage by appropriate instrument, any of her real estate freed as to it and its…
KRS § 404.060 Married women as parties to actions
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(1) A married woman may sue, and be sued, as a single woman. (2) She may defend an action against her and her husband for herself, and for him also if he fail to defend. (3) If a husband desert his wife, she may bring or defend for him any action which he might bring or defend, a…