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S.C. Code Ann. § 20-5-10 Powers of wife as to property and contracts generally
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A married woman may purchase any species of property in her own name and take proper legal conveyances therefor and may bind herself by contract in the same manner and to the same extent as though she were unmarried. All such contracts shall be legal and obligatory and may be enf…
S.C. Code Ann. § 20-5-20 Power of wife to convey, bequeath, and devise separate property; descent
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A married woman shall have power to bequeath, devise or convey her separate property in the same manner and to the same extent as if she were unmarried and, dying intestate, her property shall descend in the same manner as the law provides for the descent of the property of husba…
S.C. Code Ann. § 20-5-30 Wife's property is not subject to husband's debts
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The real and personal property of a married woman, whether held by her at the time of her marriage or accrued to her thereafter, either by gift, grant, inheritance, devise, purchase or otherwise, shall not be subject to levy and sale for her husband's debts but shall be her separ…
S.C. Code Ann. § 20-5-40 Earnings and income of married women
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All the earnings and income of a married woman shall be her own separate estate and shall be governed by the same provisions of law as apply to her other separate estate.
