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