81-3-104. Married individual's right to wages -- Actions for personal injury.
(1) A married individual may:
(a) receive the wages for the individual's personal labor as if unmarried;
(b) maintain an action in the individual's own name and hold the same in the individual's own right as if unmarried; and
(c) prosecute and defend all actions for the preservation and protection of the individual's rights and property as if unmarried.
(2) A husband does not have a right of recovery:
(a) on account of personal injury or wrong to the husband's wife; or
(b) for expenses connected with the personal injury or wrong to the husband's wife.
(3)(a) A wife may recover against a third person for a personal injury or wrong to the wife as if unmarried.
(b) A recovery shall include expenses of medical treatment and other expenses paid or assumed by the husband.